Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-05-05 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
So, I guess this wasn't just a hardware issue. I actually had another system crash. This only appears to happen when I'm issuing xm commands over and over. Any thoughts? Thanks, Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clarkson.edu On Thu, Apr 30, 2009

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-30 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
I've discovered what the issue is. The machine is rebooting when a sector error occurs on one of the drives that is part of a software RAID where the VMs are currently being stored. Thanks for the help though. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clar

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Karanbir, can you please, in short, explain to me current status of 64-bit CentOS compared to i386? Is it's maturity same as of i386? I started to actively use CentOS when 4.2 was last version. My decision to use i386-only was based on issues with some (or many?) drivers like madwifi for AR5007

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > Well, I'm actually not using a PAExen kernel but I don't believe that I > need to be since I'm running the 64-bit version of CentOS. Am I > mistaken in that assumption? > Matthew, you are right. Also, the idea of running a PAE kernel on CentOS is non relevant --

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
Well, I'm actually not using a PAExen kernel but I don't believe that I need to be since I'm running the 64-bit version of CentOS. Am I mistaken in that assumption? Thanks, Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clarkson.edu On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:0

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Just to make sure, you are using PAExen kernel on 12GB RAM Linux? 4GB is max for regular kernel without PAE extensions. Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > Yeah, the Dom0 should have plenty of memory left since only 2-3 GB of > memory is being used out of 12 GB installed. The out of memory messages

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
Yeah, the Dom0 should have plenty of memory left since only 2-3 GB of memory is being used out of 12 GB installed. The out of memory messages were from the domU that I xm consoled into prior to shutting down that particular VM because it was out of memory. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson Un

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Maros Timko
Hi Mathew, I would say no. Our system has freezed completely, it did not reboot. Our issue was caused by concurrent access to scheduler method that created a deadlock.I can see some out of memory messages, do you still have enough memory for Dom0? 2009/4/29 Mathew S. McCarrell > Hey, > > I'm wo

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
Hey, I'm wondering if it is possible that your problem is related to mine. Earlier today I had to restart one of our domUs on one of our systems. I used xm shutdown instead of xm destroy and then did xm list to determine if the domU had shutdown or not. Upon issuing xm list a second time, the en

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-07 Thread Maros Timko
Hi all, thanks to all for valuable replies. It seems like we identified the issue. We assured that it is not HW related as it was already reproduced on different machines and platforms, with different BIOS versions. We are running a system performance/statistics collector that executes "xentop" co

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie Walker
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Maros Timko wrote: > Yes, > > mem and disk check was also our first thing to do. But it happened on > different machines (1950s and 2950s), different BIOS versions and number of > NICs. The freeze situation is unrecoverable - machine replies to pings, but > did not

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-03 Thread James Roman
I've had to deal with issues like these in the past and I can say they always suck. Normally, the whole OS freezes due to a hardware issue. Isolating the cause is extremely time consuming. If it happens on a regular basis, (I.E. every 60 or maybe 90 days) the most likely culprit is the DRAC car

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-03 Thread Maros Timko
Yes, mem and disk check was also our first thing to do. But it happened on different machines (1950s and 2950s), different BIOS versions and number of NICs. The freeze situation is unrecoverable - machine replies to pings, but did not write anything to console. You cannot SSH to it, the only thing

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-03 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Maros TIMKO wrote: > > we are running CentOS 5.2 Xen virtualization system with the latest CentOS > packages with couple of VMs on DELL PowerEdge. "Sometimes" the whole machine > freezes without anything in log files, anything on the console. "Sometimes" > really me

[CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-03 Thread Maros TIMKO
Hi all, we are running CentOS 5.2 Xen virtualization system with the latest CentOS packages with couple of VMs on DELL PowerEdge. "Sometimes" the whole machine freezes without anything in log files, anything on the console. "Sometimes" really means we cannot define why or when. Sometimes the