Re: [Xen-users] xen dom0 server freezes every one or two hours

[Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>]

On Do, Dez 20, 2007 at 04:35:50 +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I switched to a xen kernel on a HP DL 365, running openSUSE 10.3, x86_64.
> The HP DL 386 is a amd64 based machine.
> 
> I had to add a swiotlb=16 kernel parameter into grub.conf, to get the 
> kernel running at all. 
> 
> I have 4 virtual hosts running on the machine, also openSUSE 10.3, x86_64.
> 
> I have two physical interfaced bonded together, then I have 10 vlan 
> interfaces
> on top of the bond0 interface. The vlan interfaces are each connected to a 
> bridge, one bridge for every vlan. Each of the four machines has 10 
> eth interface, that are connected to each of the bridges. 
> 
> Further I have several phy: disks from SAN configured handed over to the 
> virtual machines.
> 
> Setup and test of the hosts went fine, but when under load, then after an
> hour or two, the server just freezes.
> 
> from time to time I see messages like this in the dom0 /var/log/messages:
> blkback: ring-ref 4882, event-channel 15, protocol 1 (x86_64-abi)
> blkback: ring-ref 4883, event-channel 16, protocol 1 (x86_64-abi)
> 
> Don't know, what the meaning of them is, as far as I could find out via 
> googling, it must have sth. to do with networking.


Hello, 

one of my associates have said that he has similar problem.
Network hangs from time to time, 
and only in case when he uses virtual network configuration
with VLANs. He has tried to reproduce the error but without
success.

The error appears in random fashion.
At least we can't find the cause of the problem.

Yes, he also reported that there were messages in the Xend log file
in the same time as network was hanging (approximately same as he
said; he didn't manage to find exact time):

blkback: ring-ref 9, event-channel 5, protocol 1 (x86_32-abi) 
blkback: ring-ref 8, event-channel 4, protocol 1 (unspecified, assuming native) 

> 
> further, on startup of the dom0, I see the following in /var/log/boot.msg, 
> don't 
> know whether this is a problem:
> 
> Starting udevd done
> Loading required kernel modules
> doneActivating swap-devices in /etc/fstab...
> donemount: according to mtab, /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 is already mounted on /
> 
> NOTE: scsidev is obsolete and the udev generated persistent device names
>  under /dev/scsi/by-id/ (od by-path) should be used instead.
> Scanning SCSI devices and filling /dev/scsi/ done
> Activating device mapper...
> done
> Creating multipath targets:device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or 
> resource busy
> device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or resource busy
> device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or resource busy
> device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or resource busy
> 
> 
> The dom0 is started this way from GRUB:
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 14 15:03:43 CET 2007
> default 0
> timeout 8
> ##YaST - activate
> 
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
> title XEN -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.13-0.3
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=390M
>     module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.13-0.3-xen 
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b1001030343620202020200001-part1 vga=0x317 
> resume=/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 splash=silent showopts swiotlb=16
>     module /boot/initrd-2.6.22.13-0.3-xen
> 
> 
> 
> uname -a
> Linux srv4 2.6.22.13-0.3-xen #1 SMP 2007/11/19 15:02:58 UTC x86_64 x86_64 
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> rpm -qa | grep xen
> xen-3.1.0_15042-51
> kernel-xen-2.6.22.13-0.3
> xen-doc-html-3.1.0_15042-51
> xen-libs-3.1.0_15042-51
> xen-tools-3.1.0_15042-51
> xen-doc-pdf-3.1.0_15042-51
> xen-tools-ioemu-3.1.0_15042-51
> 
> 
> I also had powersaved stopped, acpi stopped, ntp stopped (I found a thread 
> where someone had
> a problem with clocks walking backward and dying xen server), but so far, 
> the box still freezes
> without any notice in the logs.
> 
> Any idea what could be the problem I have or where should I take a further 
> look to 
> figure out what causes the problem of the freezing server?
> 
> kind regards
> Sebastian
> 
> 
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WBR, i.m.chubin


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