On Sun January 3 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > I have a strange issue, one of my free bsd guests started using up 100% > cpu and wouldnt respond in the console after a md-raid check started on > the raid1 volume the vm has its lvm volumes on. About the only thing I > could do was force the vm off, and restart it. In the guests console > there was some kind of DMA warning/error related to the guest's disk > saying it would retry, but it seems it never got that far. > I forgot to mention, the host is running debian sid with kernel 2.6.31-1- amd64, and kvm --version reports: QEMU PC emulator version 0.10.50 (qemu-kvm-devel-88) the hosts / and the vm volumes all sit on a lvm volume group, ontop of a md- raid1 mirror of two Seagate 7200.12 500GB SATAII drives. The host is running 7 other guest which all seem to be running smoothly, except both freebsd (pfSense) based guests which seemed to have locked up after this message: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=16183439 Though the second freebsd guest didn't seem to use up nearly as much cpu, but it uses up far lower resources than the first. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- 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
