----- "Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues" <lmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 11:26 +0000, Yann Hamon wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with the kvm84 and libvirt 0.6.1 backports. I > am experiencing regular crashes of my Vms - well, more like "freezes" > than actual crashes. This is how it looks like: > http://waste.mandragor.org/kvmcpu/munin.html > > > > * The VM keeps running > > * The number of LOC IRQs goes down to 0, as well as the number of > context switches > > * The number of processes gradually grows > > * The weird thing: some processes that were running before the crash > keep running, but won't be able to fork (as you can see the munin-node > continues to work) > > > > This is bothering me a lot and I have absolutely no idea how to fix > it or work around it. > > Has this been experienced by anyone else, and/or fixed in a later > version of KVM? > > I saw your blog post yesterday speaking about it. Unfortunately I don't > have much experience with kvm under Ubuntu, so you might want to talk to > Dustin, Ubuntu's maintainer of KVM. I saw some replies to your blog post > suggesting you to use Dustin's PPA, have you tried to do that? Yes, it's the one I am using - the package has actually been pushed to backports. I did talk to him, but I think they have problems reproducing the bug (it happens fairly rarely, but about once or twice a week for me as I got 50-60 vms). > I am copying Dustin on the message. As I said, I am not very > knowledgeable with Ubuntu, but perhaps you should try a newer KVM > build? I think he is aware of the bug, but quite busy with building the virtualisation infrastructure for 10.4 I'm afraid :) We used to be supported customers (pledged for that backport actually :( ) but aren't anymore, due to some disagreement between my boss and one of their commercials, which is why I thought I would give it a try here. Maybe someone else experienced that bug... > kvm-84 is kinda... old :) A backport of a more current codebase to 8.04 > could be a good idea. Sure, looking forward to 10.4... Might even uprade to 9.10 if I cant wait til then... ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. -- 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
