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Re: [Xen-devel] slow storage backend kills stubdomains

To: Keith Coleman <list.keith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] slow storage backend kills stubdomains
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:38:19 +0300
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:43:17PM -0400, Keith Coleman wrote:
> After deploying stubdomains in a production environment with xen 3.4.1
> and the official 2.6.18-xen kernel I've had a lot of crashes. Each
> server hosts several PV and HVM domUs. Whenever the storage backend
> gets slow (RAID rebuild, domU with heavy disk IO, etc) the stubdomains
> begin dying off. I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Has anyone else seen this issue?
> 2. fs-backend is still running so is there any way to attach a new
> stubdom to the existing (orphaned) HVM domU?
> 

Did you apply this patch?

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/msg00335.html

-- Pasi


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