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Re: [Xen-devel] domains not shutting down properly - the problem isback

To: Venefax <venefax@xxxxxxxxx>, 'James Harper' <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] domains not shutting down properly - the problem isback again
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:41:36 +0000
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Not releasing any guest memory would possibly be a different bug. James's
guests are hanging around with just a few kilobytes of memory remaining.

 K.

On 01/01/2009 14:34, "Venefax" <venefax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have the same issue. And Novell technical services is working on a fix.
> The memory assigned to a domain is not returned to the system after is
> killed with "destroy". After several dozen "destroy" and "start" I have to
> reboot the host. An my host has 128 GB of ram.
> Federico
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> -----Original Message-----
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> To: James Harper; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] domains not shutting down properly - the problem
> isback again
> 
> On 01/01/2009 13:09, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Domains don't die, they just stay in the 's' state until you 'xm
>>> destroy' them, and even after that there is still a page or two being
>>> used according to 'xm debug q'.
>>> 
>>> I have upgraded to 3.3.1-rc4 but it doesn't seem to make a
>>> difference...
>> 
>> Also, 'lsevtchn' shows one extra 'Channel is waiting interdom
>> connection' after starting and then destroying a new domain.
> 
> Backend driver not cleaning up due to xend not correctly deleting a
> directory from xenstore, or because of hotplug/udev script problems? There's
> some interaction going on with your dom0 installation, since no one else has
> seen or reported this issue.
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
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