On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:18:16PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > [] >>>>> Was there swapping going on? >>>> Not as far as I can see, and sar output agrees. >>> >>> But I can read this from you guest traces: > > I missed this one yesterday. Note it's GUEST traces > indeed. Higher (read: non-zero) pgp{in,out} and faults > values happens in *guest*, not on host (original question > was if we've swapping in HOST, which'd explain the timer > issues) Yeah indeed. But still, that's a strange happenstance. > [cutting extra all-zero columns] >>> pgpgin/s pgpgout/s fault/s pgfree/s >>> 11:44:47 0.00 32.32 907.07 277.78 >>> 11:44:48 27.59 22.99 44.83 150.57 >>> 11:44:49 0.00 33.68 22.11 218.95 >>> [...] >>> 21:46:54 0.00 31.68 16.83 90.10 >>> 21:46:55 0.00 108.00 17.00 89.00 >>> 21:46:56 9.76 482.93 3890.24 439.02 >>> 21:46:57 0.00 760.00 8627.00 1133.00 >>> 21:46:58 0.00 84.85 2612.12 138.38 >>> 21:46:59 0.00 16.00 17.00 90.00 >>> >>> So it looks like there was some swapping in when the hrtimer (spuriously) >>> hanged. > > One possible guess. Since the guest hanged for some time, the > higher values there might be a result of accumulated values for > several seconds. May be yeah. I don't know enough about virtual internals so... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html