Gino LV. Ledesma
2005-May-25 19:11 UTC
Re: FW: [Xen-users] Problem with Dell Poweredge 1850
On 5/10/05, David H <davidh.davidh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:> On 5/10/05, Rob See <rob@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This seems to have fixed the problem. I didn''t get the usual lock>> up running either command that guaranteed me a hang in the past. Are there >> any side effects to the ignorebiostables option that I need to be aware >> of. Will there be a proper patch to address this issue ? > > It will make your shiny new dual proc hyperthreaded system look like a > single CPU non-ht machine to xen. Other than that it''s no problem. :) >I''m having the same issues as Rob on a Dell PE1850 with LSI (53c1030) rev 08. With Xen 2.0.6 (Kernel 2.6.11), the system immediately freezes (hard lock-up) upon any intensive I/O (be it rsync, cp, tar, dd). Using ignorebiostables works, though not having SMP is a bummer. Are there any other workarounds to this (unstable? kernel patch?)? There was a post that mentioned something about ServerWorks issue in the kernel. I''ll do more testing. Any help is appreviated. Thanks! gino ledesma _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
After a few day of off and on testing it would appear that adding "nousb" to the 2.6 kernel boot options in the grub config fixes this problem. I have tested with the last few days of unstable builds without a hang. I have no idea why this works but, so far it does. I have not had a chance to test much with 2.0.6 so I can''t say for sure if the same holds true there. I should have some time in the next day or two to try to track this issue down. If anyone cares to point me in the right direction they could probably save me a great deal of time. David On 5/25/05, Gino LV. Ledesma <gledesma@gmail.com> wrote:> On 5/10/05, David H <davidh.davidh@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/10/05, Rob See <rob@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This seems to have fixed the problem. I didn''t get the usual lock> >> up running either command that guaranteed me a hang in the past. Are there > >> any side effects to the ignorebiostables option that I need to be aware > >> of. Will there be a proper patch to address this issue ? > > > > It will make your shiny new dual proc hyperthreaded system look like a > > single CPU non-ht machine to xen. Other than that it''s no problem. :) > > > > I''m having the same issues as Rob on a Dell PE1850 with LSI (53c1030) > rev 08. With Xen 2.0.6 (Kernel 2.6.11), the system immediately freezes > (hard lock-up) upon any intensive I/O (be it rsync, cp, tar, dd). > Using ignorebiostables works, though not having SMP is a bummer. > > Are there any other workarounds to this (unstable? kernel patch?)? > There was a post that mentioned something about ServerWorks issue in > the kernel. I''ll do more testing. Any help is appreviated. > > Thanks! > > gino ledesma > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users