Steve, Sure, SMP shouldn't affect your routing and it is very strange. I guess >90% of people are running SMP kernels.
>From your report it is totally unclear what OVZ kernel version is (e.g. >something like 028stab039) and where this kernel was got from. Have you built it yourself? Can you please provide a bit more details on what is working and what not? Why have you decided that it is rounting to blame to? Thanks, Kirill Steve Hodges wrote: > After getting most of my problems solved I decided to move my test > environment onto the production server. > > The server is a dual xeon which, with hyperthreading, appears (to Linux) > to have 4 processors. So, when I built this machine I decided to use > the ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp > > The rebuild caused me all sorts of routing problems which I have managed > to track down to being caused by the kernel. I just replaced the kernel > with ovzkernel-2.6.18 > > aptitude install ovzkernel-2.6.18 > aptitude remove ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp > shutdown -r now > > problem solvered! > > It seems pretty odd that the smp kernel sould cause this, but I really > don't know what is different about that kernel. > > The symptoms were similar to the ones I had before I set the netmask of > the venets correctly, but more extreme. Whereas the netmask issue > seemed to cause packets to go out of the wrong interface, this problem > seemed to stop packets getting out of the server at all. > > If there are any questions about the symptoms, I will be able to swap > back to that kernel for the next day or so to test things out. > > What will the impact be of running the non-smp kernel on a > multi-processir machine? Will I only effectively use a single processor? > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
