From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David F Barrera Subject: Re: zombie domains Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:59:29 -0600 Message-ID: <436685B1.1050003@us.ibm.com> References: <43662E9F.3000103@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43662E9F.3000103@suse.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Gerd Knorr Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I saved a domain and ended up with a Zombie-migrating domain: x235:~ # xm list Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 250 1 r----- 5518.8 vm1 1 127 1 ------ 2564.9 Zombie-migrating-vm2 2 0 1 ---s-d 1292.4 vm3 3 127 1 ------ 1683.5 vm4 4 127 1 ------ 1783.8 vm5 5 127 1 r----- 1615.0 vm2 6 126 1 ------ 10.9 At first I thought it was a temporary state, but after an hour or so, it is still there. I later restored it (vm2) successfully, but the zombie is still there. Gerd Knorr wrote: > Hi, > > How can I figure why some domain is still in zombie state, like these > ones: > > master-xen root /vm/ttylinux# xm list > Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s) > Domain-0 0 574 1 r----- 90.5 > Zombie-small-11 28 0 1 ---s-d 0.9 > Zombie-small-17 34 0 1 ---s-d 0.5 > Zombie-small-18 35 0 1 ---s-d 0.6 > Zombie-small-19 36 0 1 ---s-d 0.5 > > I've created 16 ttylinux instances with a script, then called "xm > shutdown -a -w", then ended up with these four Zombies ... > > Gerd > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >