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Re: [Xen-devel] XCP - FYI - An easy way to wedge (and fix) a Cloud

To: dwight at supercomputer.org <dwight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] XCP - FYI - An easy way to wedge (and fix) a Cloud
From: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:36:53 -0700
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On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 12:04 -0400, dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
> This is mostly FYI. I know someone else is going to run into this.
> 
> It turns out that it's real easy to wedge an entire Cloud with
> the default configurations in XCP 0.1.1. We saw this recently
> with our Development Cloud.
> 
> It turns out that /var/log had filled up the root filesystem on
> the master.  500M+ worth of messages in there. After I tracked 
> down the problem, and freed this space up, everything started  
> working again.

Which ones were the files growing too big? I recently caused potential
trouble with blktap. But there may be more. Both xapi and storage
management can get quite chatty, although I think this improved with
xs5.x.

Daniel



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