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Re: [Xen-users] Domain 0 reboot when network flow is heavy

To: Tom Mornini <tmornini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users <Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Domain 0 reboot when network flow is heavy
From: Xin Chen <xcheney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:39:23 +1000
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Thanks Tom,

I did these experiments on domain 0 today:
First, I shutdown the guest systems running on domain 0, in case domain 0 reboots.

1, write a script:
!#/bin/sh
while [ 1 ] do
/proc/slabinfo >> ./slabinfo.txt
end

then keep this script running around 20 mins, until slabinfo.txt about 4gb, domain 0 still running ok.

2, choose a 10gb file called temp, and do scp
#scp temp localhost:/tmp/temp
copying speed: 25mb/s, domain 0 still running ok.

3, again, like yesterday, scp a large file from remote server to domain 0. I did it twice, and domain 0 still running ok.

I am not sure what it tells, I need to test again. Just may give a idea that it only happens when there is a guest running???

xin



Tom Mornini wrote:

This sounds very similar to bugs we've seen with Xen version before 3.1

We believe the problem to be disk I/O related, but in our environment, disk I/O is also network I/O, so it's hard to tell.

We believe this problem to be corrected in 3.1, but we still haven't done enough testing to satisfy ourselves entirely on this.

See this previous thread:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-03/msg00073.html



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