I''m experimenting with Xen + iSCSI on 64bit platfoms, and I founded that under heavy stress domU''s can crash entire system, I''ve reproduced this many many times. My systems are like this Software: - iSCSI Enterprise Target v0.4.13 - RedHat AS4 update 4 64bit + Xen 3.0.3-0 Kernel 2.6.16.29 + Open iSCSI v2.0.730 (Initiator) - Bonnie++ v1.03a (stressing program) VM: - Debian 3.1r3 + Open iSCSI v2.0.730 (Initiator) - RedHat AS4 update 4 + Open iSCSI v2.0.730 (Initiator) Perfomed tests: Four instances of bonnie++ with root uid on the filesystem to be stressed On all the cases the result was a crash, but when I switch to a 32bit distro everything works fine The attached files are the captured crash errors on the cosole Luis Vinay _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Pasi Kärkkäinen
2006-Dec-14 18:40 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] 64bit Xen + iSCSI became in a dom0 crash
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:36:47PM -0300, Luis Vinay wrote:> I''m experimenting with Xen + iSCSI on 64bit platfoms, and I founded that > under heavy stress domU''s can crash entire system, I''ve reproduced this many > many times. >Do you run iscsi-initiator in dom0 or in domU ? -- Pasi> My systems are like this > > Software: > - iSCSI Enterprise Target v0.4.13 > - RedHat AS4 update 4 64bit + Xen 3.0.3-0 Kernel 2.6.16.29 + Open iSCSI > v2.0.730 (Initiator) > - Bonnie++ v1.03a (stressing program) > > VM: > - Debian 3.1r3 + Open iSCSI v2.0.730 (Initiator) > - RedHat AS4 update 4 + Open iSCSI v2.0.730 (Initiator) > > Perfomed tests: > Four instances of bonnie++ with root uid on the filesystem to be stressed > > On all the cases the result was a crash, but when I switch to a 32bit distro > everything works fine > > The attached files are the captured crash errors on the cosole > > Luis Vinay_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel