WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4.0.1 hangs when trying to create vps

To: Pim van Riezen <pi+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4.0.1 hangs when trying to create vps
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:48:00 +0200
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:49:39 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <A4465076-897B-4713-BEC4-EE38F53FA3D3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <A4465076-897B-4713-BEC4-EE38F53FA3D3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Pim van Riezen wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> we recently migrated to Xen4.0.1 on one of our clusters. It solves a lot of 
> problem, but it also adds one. Whenever we try to xm create a guest that 
> oversteps the total amount of available memory, xend completely hangs itself 
> up and stops responding to any rpc calls..
> 
> The last lines in xend.log are:
> 
> [2011-02-02 10:00:22 8199] DEBUG (balloon:172) Balloon: tmem relinquished -1 
> KiB of 20100116 KiB requested.
> [2011-02-02 10:00:22 8199] DEBUG (balloon:226) Balloon: 13454316 KiB free; 0 
> to scrub; need 33554432; retries: 115.
> [2011-02-02 10:00:22 8199] DEBUG (balloon:226) Balloon: 13454316 KiB free; 0 
> to scrub; need 33554432; retries: 210.
> 
> is there a way to recover from this?
> 

Did you dedicate fixed amount of memory for dom0?

Are you using tmem? 

-- Pasi


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users