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2010 Mar 10
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Logrotate/cron and major I/O contention with KVM.
...d opcode was: unknown Mar 11 04:05:59 localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 Mar 11 04:06:14 localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout error Mar 11 04:06:14 localhost kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } One reference I've found is at * http://lonesysadmin.net/linux-virtual-machine-tuning-guide/ This suggests avoiding running scheduled jobs simultaneously across guests, and suggests using a random sleep. Does anyone else have suggestions on reducing the impact of cron/logrotate. -- *Steven Ellis - Director of Worldwide Engineering,* *Bulletin.Net...