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RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:31:59 +0200
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Do you have a 64bit xen kernel?

 

From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathon Jones
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:11 PM
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM

 

Regarding the second setup....This is very similar to my own in that I have 4 GB Ram running at 667MHz and a dual processor dual core setup and I see no stability issues thus far.  Aside from a networking issue I ran into which people from this list were very helpful with, I have had no problems at all with xen and my performance is quite good.

I just wanted to mention this in case others read these emails and thought there was an issue with this sort of setup in general.

Jon

Mark Williamson wrote: 

Hi,
 
If this occurred solely when upgrading the amount of RAM in the system (did 
you even get to increase the memory size of individual domUs yet?) I'd 
suggest this is probably some kind of bug and should be referred to the 
xen-devel list.
 
Cheers,
Mark
 
On Saturday 10 March 2007 18:12, sergiu@xxxxxx wrote:
  
Hi,
 
I've build an entire army of xen PV and HVM guests. I succeded to resolve
any problem encountered in my xen-projects. Everything was jus great in my
"perfect-xen-world" until I've changed something simple.
 
THE PROBLEM: I've made an upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM and everything
was screwed up: zombie domUs, corrupted tap:aio files, tons of erros etc.
If I'm going back to old configuration with 2 GB of RAM the everything
comes back to normal.
 
First time I thought that new DDR2 modules are the cause of this cataclysm
but memtest did not return any error. That was on my Intel Server with 4 x
1 GB DDR2 modules at 533 Mhz and 1 x Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
with 2 cores and 2 MB L2 Cache on each core.
 
I've made additional tests on a separated machine: Dell PowerEdge 1950
with 8 x 512 DDR2 modules at 677 Mhz and 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @
2.00GHz with 2 cores / CPU and 4 MB L2 Cache on each core. The problem is
exactly the same... but if I'm using only 2 GB of RAM everything is ok.
 
Issues:
 
* I don't think Intel SE7230NH1 and Dell PE 1950 servers had hardware
problems that could cause this problem
 
* A non-PAE kernel can only address up to 4GB of memory... I do not have
more than 4 GB of RAM
 
* I found some articles related to Xen having problems with more than 4
Gbytes of network traffic
 
* I found some articles related to LSI Logic RAID Controllers combined
with linux driver having problems on machines with 4 GB of memory
 
* It's something related to memory holes?
 
* It's something related only to Fedora Core Xen Kernels?
 
Here are some about my setup
 
---------------------------------------------------
 
** Details on dom0:
 
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6xen ro root=/dev/sda1
        module /initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6xen.img
 
host                   : localhost.localdomain
release                : 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6xen
version                : #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 16:59:41 EST 2007
machine                : i686
nr_cpus                : 4
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 2
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 1995
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:20100000:00000000:00000140:0004e33d:00000000:00000001
total_memory           : 4095
free_memory            : 512
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 0
xen_extra              : .3-0-1.2911.6.5
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xf5800000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)
cc_compile_by          : brewbuilder
cc_compile_domain      : build.redhat.com
cc_compile_date        : Sun Mar  4 15:44:49 EST 2007
xend_config_format     : 2
 
 
** Parts from xm dmesg
 
 
 Xen version 3.0.3-0-1.2911.6.5.fc6 (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc
version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) Sun Mar  4 15:44:49 EST 2007
 Latest ChangeSet: unavailable
 
(XEN) Command line: /boot/xen.gz-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
(XEN) Physical RAM map:
(XEN)  0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
(XEN)  0000000000100000 - 00000000cffa8000 (usable)
(XEN)  00000000cffa8000 - 00000000cffb7c00 (ACPI data)
(XEN)  00000000cffb7c00 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000fe000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000 (usable)
(XEN) System RAM: 4095MB (4193568kB)
(XEN) Xen heap: 9MB (10224kB)
(XEN) PAE enabled, limit: 16 GB
(XEN) found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
(XEN) DMI 2.4 present.
(XEN) Using APIC driver default
 
 
(XEN) VMXON is done
 
 
(XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
(XEN)  -> Using new ACK method
(XEN) ..TIMER: vector=0xF0 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
(XEN) checking TSC synchronization across 4 CPUs: passed.
(XEN) Platform timer is 14.318MHz HPET
(XEN) Brought up 4 CPUs
(XEN) Machine check exception polling timer started.
(XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
(XEN) Domain 0 kernel supports features = { 0000001f }.
(XEN) Domain 0 kernel requires features = { 00000000 }.
(XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN)  Dom0 alloc.:   0000000007000000->0000000008000000 (999720 pages to
be allocated)
(XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN)  Loaded kernel: c0400000->c085aa08
(XEN)  Init. ramdisk: c085b000->c0b8e000
(XEN)  Phys-Mach map: c0b8e000->c0f624a0
(XEN)  Start info:    c0f63000->c0f6346c
(XEN)  Page tables:   c0f64000->c0f71000
(XEN)  Boot stack:    c0f71000->c0f72000
(XEN)  TOTAL:         c0000000->c1000000
(XEN)  ENTRY ADDRESS: c0400000
(XEN) Dom0 has maximum 4 VCPUs
(XEN) Initrd len 0x333000, start at 0xc085b000
(XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM:
.................................................done.
(XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
(XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console.
(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input
to Xen).
 
 
** xm list
 
Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0     3024     4 r-----    115.8
Zombie-test5                              16      256     1 ----cd      0.5
 
 
** Details on domU:
 
Configuration
 
name = "test1"
memory = "256"
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/huge/test1.img,xvda,w', ]
bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
 
 
Errors extracted from xm console test1
 
 
Loading xenblk.ko module
Registering block device major 202
 xvda:<1>WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 0
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 0
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 0
 unable to read partition table
Creating root device.
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 20971392
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 2621424
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 20971392
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 2621424
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 3
Buffer I/O error on device xvda, logical block 4
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
Mounting root filesystem.
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 20971392
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 20971392
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
WARNING: g.e. still in use!
WARNING: leaking g.e. and page still in use!
end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 0
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 
---------------------------------------------------
 
I can understand that (for the moment) I cannot rely on Xen in production
enviroments BUT I never imagine that Xen could be so unpredictable!
    
 
  
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