Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest (now in host - not KVM then..)

2010-05-22 Thread Jim Paris
Antoine Martin wrote: On 02/27/2010 12:38 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: 1 0 0 98 0 1| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 3011 1 1 0 98 0 0| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 2911 From that point onwards, nothing will happen. The host has disk IO to spare... So

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest (now in host - not KVM then..)

2010-05-22 Thread Antoine Martin
On 05/23/2010 01:10 AM, Jim Paris wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: On 02/27/2010 12:38 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: 1 0 0 98 0 1| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 3011 1 1 0 98 0 0| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 2911 From that point

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest (now in host - not KVM then..)

2010-05-21 Thread Antoine Martin
On 02/27/2010 12:38 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: 1 0 0 98 0 1| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 3011 1 1 0 98 0 0| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 2911 From that point onwards, nothing will happen. The host has disk IO to spare... So what is it waiting for??

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest

2010-02-26 Thread Antoine Martin
1 0 0 98 0 1| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 3011 1 1 0 98 0 0| 0 0 | 66B 354B| 0 0 | 2911 From that point onwards, nothing will happen. The host has disk IO to spare... So what is it waiting for?? Moved to an AMD64 host. No effect. Disabled

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest [NOT SOLVED]

2010-02-03 Thread Antoine Martin
On 01/23/2010 02:15 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: On 01/23/2010 01:28 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: On 01/22/2010 02:57 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels, custom 2.6.32.x All of them hang around the same point (~1GB

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest [NOT SOLVED]

2010-01-24 Thread Antoine Martin
On 01/23/2010 02:15 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: On 01/23/2010 01:28 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: On 01/22/2010 02:57 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels, custom 2.6.32.x All of them hang around the same point (~1GB

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest [SOLVED]

2010-01-22 Thread Antoine Martin
On 01/22/2010 02:57 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels, custom 2.6.32.x All of them hang around the same point (~1GB written) when I do heavy IO write inside the guest. [] Host is running: 2.6.31.4

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest [NOT SOLVED]

2010-01-22 Thread Antoine Martin
On 01/23/2010 01:28 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: On 01/22/2010 02:57 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels, custom 2.6.32.x All of them hang around the same point (~1GB written) when I do heavy IO write inside the

repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest

2010-01-21 Thread Antoine Martin
I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels, custom 2.6.32.x All of them hang around the same point (~1GB written) when I do heavy IO write inside the guest. I have waited 30 minutes to see if the guest would recover, but it just sits there, not writing back any data, not

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest

2010-01-21 Thread RW
Some months ago I also thought elevator=noop should be a good idea. But it isn't. It works good as long as you only do short IO requests. Try using deadline in host and guest. Robert On 01/21/10 18:26, Antoine Martin wrote: I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels,

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas Beinicke
On Thursday 21 January 2010 21:08:38 RW wrote: Some months ago I also thought elevator=noop should be a good idea. But it isn't. It works good as long as you only do short IO requests. Try using deadline in host and guest. Robert @Robert: I've been using noop on all of my KVMs and didn't

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest

2010-01-21 Thread RW
No sorry, I haven't any performance data with noop. I even don't have had a crash. BUT I've experienced serve I/O degradation with noop. Once I've written a big chunk of data (e.g. a simple rsync -av /usr /opt) with noop it works for a while and after a few seconds I saw heavy writes which made

Re: repeatable hang with loop mount and heavy IO in guest

2010-01-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
Antoine Martin wrote: I've tried various guests, including most recent Fedora12 kernels, custom 2.6.32.x All of them hang around the same point (~1GB written) when I do heavy IO write inside the guest. [] Host is running: 2.6.31.4 QEMU PC emulator version 0.10.50 (qemu-kvm-devel-88) Please