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Re: [Xen-users] xen dom0 server freezes every one or two hours

Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen dom0 server freezes every one or two hours
From: "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:14:56 +0100
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Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > On Fr, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:39:47 +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > > Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > Hello Sebastian,
> > > > 
> > > > any news about your problem?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I've recommended my friend to try pci=routeirq
> > > > like Stephan advised, but without success :(
> > > > Nevertheless, thank you for your idea
> > > 
> > > Yes, I have, we have done a lot of tests, it took a bit of time.
> > > While testing, we got the server freeze without xen kernel at all, so 
> xen is 
> > > not the problem. It turned out, that the server is very stable, when I 
> > > disable network interface bonding.
> > > I found a bug report in the novell bugzilla:
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278475
> > 
> > 
> > Congratulations!
> > 
> > > 
> > > do you also have bonding enabled on your dom0's interfaces?
> > 
> > 
> > No, there is no bonding in that installation.
> > So there is something else that cause hanging.
> > 
> > 
> > It appears only when using 8021q tagging, but nothing else.
> when testing withouth xen kernel, but bonded devices, I had vlans on top 
of 
> the bonding device. for testing, the bonding device had the IP address, so 
> the vlan's on top of it, were unused, so I thought they could not be the 
> problem. The tests without bond, were without the vlan interfaces on top.
> Maybe I should try again with bonding enabled but without the vlan 
> interface.
Just only for the records, as this is not xen related anymore, I did just 
that, two bonded interfaces, without any of the vlan interfaces up, starting 
to transfer files back and forth. It took 10 minutes and the server froze 
again.

Sebastian


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