This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Hi, I have a server dual xeon quad core with gentoo and qemu: app-emulation/qemu-kvm-0.12.3-r1 USE="aio gnutls ncurses sasl vde -alsa -bluetooth -curl -esd -fdt -hardened -kvm-trace -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sdl -static" There is a lot of vm running with ubuntu and fedora that running without problems. I installed one vm with latest gentoo amd64, stage3 and portage. When I try to do an emerge -e world the process freeze after a while, any time in differente package and there aren't any errors in the logs. This is a screenshot of the freezed vm: http://yfrog.com/0iscre1j top - 10:00:50 up 10:53, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 130 total, 1 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 5 zombie Cpu(s): 0.1%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8194776k total, 886508k used, 7308268k free, 225080k buffers Swap: 2048248k total, 0k used, 2048248k free, 476956k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 20 0 3760 656 552 S 0 0.0 0:00.86 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.78 migration/0 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.01 migration/1 6 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.05 migration/2 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/2 9 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.15 migration/3 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/3 11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.69 migration/4 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/4 13 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.49 migration/5 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/5 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11 events/0 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.21 events/1 ps -elf: 1 S root 776 2 0 80 0 - 0 scsi_e May18 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_1] 1 S root 810 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kpsmoused] 1 S root 818 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kstriped] 1 S root 821 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpathd/0] 1 S root 822 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpathd/1] 1 S root 823 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpathd/2] 1 S root 824 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpathd/3] 1 S root 825 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpathd/4] 1 S root 826 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpathd/5] 1 S root 827 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [kmpath_handlerd] 1 S root 828 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ksnapd] 1 S root 859 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [usbhid_resumer] 1 S root 900 2 0 80 0 - 0 kjourn May18 ? 00:00:00 [jbd2/vda3-8] 1 S root 901 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1 S root 902 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1 S root 903 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1 S root 904 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1 S root 905 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1 S root 906 2 0 80 0 - 0 worker May18 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 5 S root 1005 1 0 76 -4 - 3098 poll_s May18 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1 S root 2661 1 0 80 0 - 7492 wait May18 ? 00:00:00 supervising syslog-ng 5 S root 2662 2661 0 80 0 - 7525 poll_s May18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng 1 S root 3250 1 0 80 0 - 9477 poll_s May18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 1 S root 3370 1 0 80 0 - 4086 hrtime May18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron 4 S root 3437 1 0 80 0 - 13988 wait May18 tty1 00:00:00 /bin/login -- 0 S root 3438 1 0 80 0 - 1464 n_tty_ May18 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux 0 S root 3439 1 0 80 0 - 1465 n_tty_ May18 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux 0 S root 3440 1 0 80 0 - 1464 n_tty_ May18 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux 0 S root 3441 1 0 80 0 - 1465 n_tty_ May18 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux 0 S root 3442 1 0 80 0 - 1465 n_tty_ May18 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux 4 S root 3443 3437 0 80 0 - 4431 n_tty_ May18 tty1 00:00:00 -bash 5 S root 3449 1 0 80 0 - 6152 poll_s May18 ? 00:01:08 SCREEN -S cs1 4 S root 3450 3449 0 80 0 - 4403 wait May18 pts/0 00:00:00 -/bin/bash 4 S root 3454 3450 0 75 -5 - 35103 n_tty_ May18 pts/0 00:00:49 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/emerge --resume 1 S root 5222 2 0 80 0 - 0 bdi_wr 09:50 ? 00:00:00 [flush-253:0] 4 S root 5241 3250 0 80 0 - 17913 poll_s 10:00 ? 00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/2 4 S root 5244 5241 0 80 0 - 4401 wait 10:00 pts/2 00:00:00 -bash 4 R root 5251 5244 0 80 0 - 3671 - 10:02 pts/2 00:00:00 ps -elf 0 S root 12724 3454 0 75 -5 - 955 wait May18 pts/0 00:00:00 [sys-libs/glibc-2.10.1-r1] sandbox "/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh" compile 4 S root 12725 12724 0 75 -5 - 6431 wait May18 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh compile 5 S root 12756 12725 0 75 -5 - 6936 wait May18 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh compile 4 S root 14901 12756 0 75 -5 - 3631 wait May18 pts/0 00:00:00 make PARALLELMFLAGS=-j8 4 S root 14902 14901 0 75 -5 - 5155 wait May18 pts/0 00:00:01 make -r PARALLELMFLAGS=-j8 CVSOPTS= -C /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.10..1-r1/work/glibc-2.10.1 objdir=/var/tmp/ 4 S root 30286 14902 0 75 -5 - 5784 n_tty_ May18 pts/0 00:00:03 make -j8 subdir=nptl -C nptl ..=../ subdir_lib 4 Z root 31542 30286 0 75 -5 - 0 exit 01:11 pts/0 00:00:00 [x86_64-pc-linux] <defunct> 4 Z root 31543 30286 0 75 -5 - 0 exit 01:11 pts/0 00:00:00 [x86_64-pc-linux] <defunct> 4 Z root 31544 30286 0 75 -5 - 0 exit 01:11 pts/0 00:00:00 [x86_64-pc-linux] <defunct> 4 Z root 31545 30286 0 75 -5 - 0 exit 01:11 pts/0 00:00:00 [x86_64-pc-linux] <defunct> 4 Z root 31547 30286 0 75 -5 - 0 exit 01:11 pts/0 00:00:00 [x86_64-pc-linux] <defunct> I found the same problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r7,2.6.33,2.6.33-r1,2.6.33-2 always with -smp 2, 4 or 6. Kernel .config: http://pastebin.org/252943 With 2.6.32-r7 I notice the emerge will freeze after a lot of compiled packages, while with the 2.6.33 series after 30-40 compiled packages, emerge freeze. If I run vm without -smp there aren't any freeze of emerge. In the same server there are other VMs with ubuntu and -smp 6 and works without any problems. There is a limit max cpus for -smp ? for the total of the VMs running in the server? Any suggestions? It's possible to enable a log for what service? Best regards, Riccardo -- 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