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Re: [Xen-users] dom0 hangs when doing heavy I/O on domU

To: Kiefer Chang <zapchang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] dom0 hangs when doing heavy I/O on domU
From: Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:59:17 +0200
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Hi Chang,

2011/4/20 Kiefer Chang <zapchang@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi all,
> We are using XEN as hypervisor to setup our private cloud.
> The framework is Eucalyptus and using CentOS 5.4 as dom0 OS.
> Sometimes we find some machines' dom0 become unresponsive, the symptoms are:
> (1) We can't log into dom0 via ssh. After typing password, it just stops
> there.
> (2) We can ping dom0 successfully.
> (3) We can log into domU without problem.
> The unresponsive dom0 eventually "alive" after a period of time. Maybe half
> hour or even several hours.

So one of your domUs is trashing the disks and dom0 can't get enough
performance, right?
- are they sharing a disk?
- can you check what I/O scheduler you are using?
  (with cfq you can then use ionice to lower prio on all blkback
threads a little. that way dom0 will "win the race")

In general, your dom0 is privileged in terms of IO access rights, but
not in IO peformance. So if one domU goes crazy, it will affect
anything.
... until you take measures :)
I'd suggest you switch to deadline scheduler and re-test.
dom0 on a different disk media is also very advisable imho.


Flo

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