From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: kernel page request failure Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:49:04 +0300 Message-ID: <46BB2960.3040201@qumranet.com> References: <9c21eeae0708051623r31ae0e06hfdaff4f4f491b37c@mail.gmail.com> <46B6BBCC.2080201@qumranet.com> <9c21eeae0708061020i3aea7489ia2964eca04b144fc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: David Brown Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9c21eeae0708061020i3aea7489ia2964eca04b144fc-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org David Brown wrote: > On 8/5/07, Avi Kivity 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/