Re: [Xen-users] any opinions on debian vs. opensuse for Xen?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam,

Thanks for the details!  And...

Sam wrote:
> I am running on a dual 1.6ghz cpu intel atom motherboard so of course 
> this is less than ideal. The atom cpu, even though 2 core, has hyper 
> threading which makes dom0 think it has 4 cpus so you have to do some 
> testing to figure out which cpu's are actually on a separate core. 
> dom0 by default has access to all cores. I only have 2 domU's. One has:
I'm not sure if my system has hyperthreading or not - I guess I'm going 
to have to figure that out first.
Do you know if there's a way to pin dom0 to a specific core - I think 
I'm seeing kernel panics caused by dom0 (SMP errors that show up every 
once in a while).  I'm running a high-availability configuration running 
Xen over DRBD over software RAID10 - and I expect panics occur when all 
the bits line up just right before swapping into/out of dom0 - but I 
don't have the instrumentation to drill down that far.
> I would also go with debian squeeze unless you are having trouble with 
> the debian installer. I normally use the net install disk 
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and then use aptitude to install 
> the rest of my packages. I don't ever use the preset tasks to install 
> any thing.
I think I might just try going to Squeeze.  As I read the bug reports, 
the ones that seem to reference the kernal panics I'm seeing are shown 
as closed in Squeeze.
Are you running Xen 3 or 4?

Thanks,

Miles

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