From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Rister Subject: problems running many guests Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:00:44 -0500 Message-ID: <200805011800.45167.kmr@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Hi I have been trying to do some testing of a large number of guests (72) on a big multi-node IBM box (8 sockets, 32 cores, 128GB) and I am having various issues with the guests. I can get the guests to boot, but then I start to have problems. Some guests appear to stall doing I/O and some become unresponsive and spin their single vcpu at 100%. Each guest is configured with 1 vcpu and 1000MB of memory. The single virtual disk is backed by a LVM volume. Both the guest and host are running custom kernels. I have tried kvm-67, kvm-64, and kvm-62 (not functional at all). I have cloned both the kvm and kvm-userspace repositories and am building the tagged changesets from each. Here are a few of the various things I have tried: virtio and emulated devices for the nic and disk; mixed virtio and emulated devices; kvm-clock and clock=jiffies. Any help in pinpointing the problem would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Karl Rister IBM Linux Performance Team kmr@us.ibm.com (512) 838-1553 (t/l 678) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone