From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerone Young Subject: Re: Big xend bug! Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:22:29 -0600 Message-ID: <1109607749.6352.13.camel@thinkpad> References: <1109568335.7036.21.camel@thinkpad> <42233F99.4050309@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42233F99.4050309@us.ibm.com> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Anthony Liguori Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:58 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > LTP is going to put significant strain on the system it's being run on. > It's quite likely that under these conditions Xend cannot cope. This > sort of testing is probably a bit wishful. It would make sense to start > with something a bit more fundamental like unit testing of the libxc > interface. It's odd since LTP can run fine on them if run individually. But once you do them simultaneously everything goes to hell. I think testing like this is need too, I just happened to be recreating another situation our test team ran into. > > Xend marshalls it's internal state to disk. I've not looked into it all > that much but I've been able to recreate the "Xend totally hosed" > problem. It persists even after reinstalling Xend. > > I've got a funny feeling that there's a directory somewhere that if you > just rm -rf Xend will start right up again. Since all LTP test write to /tmp or there own directory I don't think this is the case. > > Doing a proper reboot or shutdown requires co-operation from the > management tools. That's why you were seeing that problem. Yeah, only "reboot -f" skipping the traditional shutdown process will let the Dom0 shutdown. I figured that this would also require management tool support, but this does not seem to be the case. > Regards, > Anthony Liguori > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > -- Jerone Young Open Virtualization IBM Linux Technology Center jyoung5@us.ibm.com 512-838-1157 (T/L: 678-1157) ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click