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Re: [Xen-users] XL ballooning issue with 96gb VM



On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 12:59 -0700, Saurabh Mishra wrote:
>
>
> > We are using Xen 4.2.4
>
>
> > lc-1:~ # xl list
> > Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
> > Domain-0                                     0  8151     4     r-----    1681.3
> > pvm-01-1                                     1  8187     4     -b----     256.4
> > pool1-slot1                                  2 98299    32     -b----      81.6
>
> Here you have 2 ~8GB guest domains and one ~96GB domain, which is a
> total of 112GB. On your 132GB host that leaves 36GB spare, which is
> probably why starting a 96GB guest fails (the error message could be
> clearer, you might have found an additional hint in "xl dmesg").
>
> If the above is anomalous and you think there shou

Gah, I swear I didn't press send there but off it went.

What I was going to say is that if you think there really is enough free
RAM then please can you show us the output of "xl info" and "xl dmesg"
as well as sharing your guest configuration file.

You might also find updating to Xen 4.3.x or Xen 4.4 will help since xl
was much improved in those releases.

Ian.



Here's xl info. I'm not seeing that failure anymore and hence don't have xl dmesg output right after the problem. Updating to higher Xen is not possible because SuSE 11 does not have them yet.

lc-6:~ # xl list
Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                     0  8151     4     r-----     161.0
pvm-01-6                                     1  8187     4     -b----      28.3
pool1-slot6                                  2 98299    32     -b----      25.0
lc-6:~ # 

lc-6:~ # xl info
host                   : lc-6
release                : 3.0.101-0.15-xen
version                : #1 SMP Wed Jan 22 15:49:03 UTC 2014 (5c01f4e)
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 40
max_cpu_id             : 39
nr_nodes               : 2
cores_per_socket       : 10
threads_per_core       : 2
cpu_mhz                : 2400
hw_caps                : bfebfbff:2c100800:00000000:00007f40:77bee3ff:00000000:00000001:00000281
virt_caps              : hvm hvm_directio
total_memory           : 131059
free_memory            : 13614
sharing_freed_memory   : 0
sharing_used_memory    : 0
free_cpus              : 0
xen_major              : 4
xen_minor              : 2
xen_extra              : .4_02-0.7.1
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : 26280
xen_commandline        : crashkernel=256M@16M console=com1 com1=115200 dom0_mem=8192m iommu=1,sharept extra_guest_irqs=80 dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0_vcpus_pin no-bootscrub
cc_compiler            : gcc-4.6 (SUSE Linux) 4.6.1 20110701 [gcc-4_6-branch revision 17
cc_compile_by          : abuild
cc_compile_domain      : 
cc_compile_date        : Thu Feb 27 18:05:27 UTC 2014
xend_config_format     : 4



name = "pool1-slot6"
boot = "c"
memory = 98304
vcpus = 32
disk = [ 'file:/root/PSVs/mnt_local_ssd/local_ssd/avm-d0:f0:db:0b:48:00-pool1-slot6-disk1/avm-1-eBuilder_vm-vm_ssc_wkr-disk1,hda,w' ]
vif = [ 'model=e1000, mac=06:00:02:00:00:00, bridge=br0', 'model=e1000, mac=06:00:03:00:00:00, bridge=br1' ]
cpuid="host,page1gb=k"
nomigrate=1
xen_platform_pci=0
pci = [  '0000:07:10.0@0a', '0000:07:10.2@0b', '0000:07:10.4@0c', '0000:07:10.6@0d', '0000:07:11.0@0e', '0000:07:11.2@0f', '0000:07:10.1@10', '0000:07:10.3@11', '0000:07:10.5@12', '0000:07:10.7@13', '0000:07:11.1@14', '0000:88:10.0@15', '0000:88:10.2@16', '0000:88:10.4@17', '0000:88:10.6@18', '0000:88:11.0@19', '0000:88:11.2@1a', '0000:88:10.1@1b', '0000:88:10.3@1c', '0000:88:10.5@1d', '0000:88:10.7@1e', '0000:88:11.1@1f' ]
cpus = [  '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18', '19', '20', '21', '22', '23', '24', '25', '26', '27', '28', '29', '30', '31', '32', '33', '34', '35' ]
kernel = "hvmloader"
builder = "hvm"
device_model = "qemu-dm"
acpi = 1
serial = "pty"
vnc = 1
vnclisten = "0.0.0.0"
pci_msitranslate = 0
>



name = "pvm-01-6"
boot = "c"
memory = 8192
vcpus = 4
disk = [ 'file:/root/PSVs/mnt_local_ssd/local_ssd/pvm-6/ssc_pvm_01.img,hda,w', ',hdc:cdrom,r' ]
vif = [ 'model=e1000, mac=00:16:3e:00:05:00, bridge=br0', 'model=e1000, mac=00:16:3f:00:05:01, bridge=br1' ]
nomigrate=1
xen_platform_pci=0
pci = [  '0000:08:00.0@0b', '0000:01:00.0@0c', '0000:07:11.6@1a', '0000:07:11.7@1b', '0000:88:11.6@1c', '0000:88:11.7@1d' ]
cpus = [  '36', '37', '38', '39' ]
kernel = "hvmloader"
builder = "hvm"
device_model = "qemu-dm"
acpi = 1
serial = "pty"
vnc = 1
vnclisten = "0.0.0.0"
pci_msitranslate = 0
>



Thanks,
/Saurabh
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