Re: kernel page request failure

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

David Brown wrote:
> On 8/5/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> David Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> I was running a guest os using kvm and I got this kernel page request
>>> failure using kvm 33 and 2.6.22.1 host.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Is this 2.6.22.1's modules (i.e. --with-patched-kernel) or kvm-33's modules?
>>     
>
> This is built with kvm-33 modules.
>
>   
>> What guest are you running?
>>     
>
> Also the same crazy sourced based distro (Source Mage).
>
> I don't remember what it was trying to rebuild I think it might have
> been gcc. The guest has 1G ram and 1G swap. Also I found that the
> guest (if there isn't any swap available) will die if all the memory
> fills up. kvm had issues when that happened and it didn't release any
> of the memory back to the host when the guest died and the process was
> killed. I'm not sure if this had something to do with it or not gcc
> does tend to generate some huge DFA's when it compiles and could have
> filled up 2G with of memory and swap...  I wasn't paying attention
> enough to notice if that was the case...
>
>   

Is this the same issue or a different issue?  Did the oops happen when 
the host was loaded?

Please try to characterize one issue at a time, completely.



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