On Sun January 3 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > 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. > No one have an idea whats going wrong? All of my virtio based linux guests stayed alive. But both of my FreeBSD guests using whatever "ide" in the - drive option sets locked up solid. -- 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
