Re: [Qemu-devel] [pve-devel] QEMU LIve Migration - swap_free: Bad swap file entry

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>]

Hi,

Am 07.02.2014 14:08, schrieb Dr. David Alan Gilbert:
> * Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG (s.priebe@profihost.ag) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 07.02.2014 13:44, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>>> Il 07/02/2014 13:30, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG ha scritto:
>>>>>>> i was able to reproduce with a longer running test VM running the
>>>>> google
>>>>>>> stress test.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm that's quite a fun set of differences; I think I'd like
>>>>> to understand whether the pattern is related to the pattern of what
>>>>> the test is doing.
>>>
>>> Stefan, can you try to reproduce it:
>>
>> first of all i've now a memory image of a VM where i can reproduce it.
>> reproducing does NOT work if i boot the VM freshly i need to let it run
>> for some hours.
>>
>> Then just when the migration finishes there is a short time frame where
>> the google stress app reports memory errors than when the migration
>> finishes it runs fine again.
>>
>> It seems to me it is related to pause and unpause/resume?
> 
> But do you have to pause/resume it to cause the error? Have you got cases
> where you boot it and then leave it running for a few hours and then it 
> fails if you migrate it?

Yes but isn't migration always a pause / unpause at the end? I thought
migration_downtime is the value a very small pause unpause is allowed.

Stefan