Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 15:59 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:57:23PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I spent a bit of time investigating this, but sadly I'm not able to > > reproduce the basis failure. > > FWIW it was me who reported this with the packages in

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 10:57 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I'm still unable to spot what might have changed between 3.16.7-ckt20- > 1+deb8u2 and 4.3.3-5 though to explain it going away, which I'd still > quite liketo get to the bottom of in order to fix in Jessie. I spent a bit of time

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Ian, On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:57:23PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I spent a bit of time investigating this, but sadly I'm not able to > reproduce the basis failure. FWIW it was me who reported this with the packages in Debian stable (linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3,

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 19:46 +0200, KSB wrote: > > This is actually useful, because it shows that the issue occurs even > > with > > Xen 4.6, which I think rules out a Xen side issue (otherwise we'd have > > had > > lots more reports from 4.4 through to 4.6) and points to a kernel side > > issue

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-27 Thread Chad Dougherty
On 2016-01-27 05:57, Ian Campbell wrote: To summarise what I can tell from this bug log the following combinations are/are not prone to this issue: xen-??? xen-4.1 xen-4.4.1 4.4.1-9+deb8u3 xen-4.6.0 3.14.15-2Y[1]

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 20:36 +0200, KSB wrote: > > Do you have a package version which you know to be good? How confident > > are > > you that it is ok (sometimes the problem is intermittent)? > > > > Lastly, is there any chance you upgraded the Xen packages at the same > > time? > > I'm starting

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-26 Thread KSB
This is actually useful, because it shows that the issue occurs even with Xen 4.6, which I think rules out a Xen side issue (otherwise we'd have had lots more reports from 4.4 through to 4.6) and points to a kernel side issue somewhere. But I checked logs more thoroughly and found it even on

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 20:36 +0200, KSB wrote: > > Do you have a package version which you know to be good? How confident > > are > > you that it is ok (sometimes the problem is intermittent)? > > > > Lastly, is there any chance you upgraded the Xen packages at the same > > time? > > I'm starting

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 21:38 +0200, KSB wrote: > Seen this behavior on earlier kernels (i.e. 3.14-2-amd64 pkg 3.14.15-2.) > and seems to be gone at least in 4.3 That's useful info thanks, I've been unable to pinpoint a culprit for this for ages now. Do you have a package version which you know

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-25 Thread KSB
Do you have a package version which you know to be good? How confident are you that it is ok (sometimes the problem is intermittent)? Lastly, is there any chance you upgraded the Xen packages at the same time? I'm starting to wonder if maybe this is not a kernel issue. Sorry, but there is

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-22 Thread KSB
Seen this behavior on earlier kernels (i.e. 3.14-2-amd64 pkg 3.14.15-2.) and seems to be gone at least in 4.3

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I'm also seeing this. With: GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN="dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M …" I see a flurry of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17)" messages every time a domU is shut down. In this configuration I note that I also see with "free -m" that dom0 has 929M, though "xl list" shows

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-10-31 Thread Andre'
Hello, I'm seeing the same. After a fresh boot before starting any guests xl shows: root@tank0:~# xl list 0 NameID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 4096 8 r- 8.4 I did run "xl mem-set 0

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-09-08 Thread Chad Dougherty
I'm experiencing this bug too. The effect is that one particular guest cannot transmit on its vif. xl.conf has 'autoballoon="off"', /etc/default/grub has 'GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="dom0_mem=2048M,max:2048M"' Trying the 'xl mem-set 0 4065' from earlier in the thread results in:

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-06-04 Thread Martin Lucina
On Wednesday, 27.05.2015 at 10:05, Martin Lucina wrote: Does xl mem-set 0 4051 make the messages stop? If not what about using 4050? I'm not sure if this is due to my rebooting the dom0 since I reported this issue, it now appears to be using a slightly different amount of memory just

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Lucina
On Sunday, 17.05.2015 at 15:14, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 21:02 +0200, Martin Lucina wrote: Note that despite the memory setting above, the dom0 has not been allocated exactly the amount asked for: # xl list 0 NameID Mem VCPUs

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Lucina
On Sunday, 17.05.2015 at 15:19, Ian Campbell wrote: One last thing... If you are able to try it then it would be interesting to know if the 4.0.x kernel from sid exhibits this behaviour too. I can try this at some point next week when I have time to go and physically kick the box in case it

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 21:02 +0200, Martin Lucina wrote: Note that despite the memory setting above, the dom0 has not been allocated exactly the amount asked for: # xl list 0 NameID Mem VCPUsState Time(s) Domain-0

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 15:14 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 21:02 +0200, Martin Lucina wrote: Note that despite the memory setting above, the dom0 has not been allocated exactly the amount asked for: # xl list 0 NameID Mem

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 21:02 +0200, Martin Lucina wrote: Bug #776448 claims to have fixed this problem, however it seems that the fix is incomplete? Yes, it was. It looks like I was even told and didn't notice: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/230401 :-/ I'll queue

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 14:51 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 21:02 +0200, Martin Lucina wrote: Bug #776448 claims to have fixed this problem, however it seems that the fix is incomplete? Yes, it was. It looks like I was even told and didn't notice:

Bug#784688: Thousands of xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2015-05-07 Thread Martin Lucina
Package: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, my Xen dom0 is printing thousands of these messages to its logs: # journalctl -b |grep xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) | wc -l 126892 # uptime 20:50:08 up 3 days, 8:28, 7