Hi,
what rebooted Dom0 or DomU? Have you some special need to run kernel 3.4.9,
try 3.0.35, I dont have any issue on server with 3.0.x.
Other thing, try to disable swap and run the script. Could be disk problem or
bus/controller problem when copying pages from swap.
Robert.
On Friday 19 of October 2012 18:45:32 Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am running a Xen host with gentoo sources 3.4.9. I've had issues
> that the box cold reboots on me and suspected memory use. Today I
> ran the following little perl script:
>
> my $a = "a" x 1000;
> $b = $a x 1000;
>
> while(1)
> {
> $b .= $b;
> }
>
> 2 Minutes about 2G swapped out (Dom0 has about 6GB of ram and lots of swap)
> and boom cold boot. No panic message on the screen before.
>
> Anybody has an idea what might be causing this?
>
> During on of these episodes I ran memtest86 on the box without error.
>
> CPU is an AMD Phenom 6core.
>
> Regards,
>
> Konstantin