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I/O stall with SuSE 10 Kernel [message #10572]

Thu, 22 February 2007 11:50

lst_hoe01
Messages: 15
Registered: February 2007

Junior Member

Hello

I have setup a OpenVZ Server for the development with the SuSE 10
Kerenl found at http://openvz.org/download/kernel/suse10/
Teh machine has been running fine until this morning. It first get
insane slow and then simply stops doing any file IO at all. It was not
loaded by any means before and i can found no error messages in the
logfiles. The only way to get the maschine up again was by
power-cycling. The Hardware we are using runs fine on other heavily
loaded SuSE 10 machines :

- Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro with 2xOpteron 248 and 4GB ECC RAM
- ICP Vortex GDT6513RS RAID Controller

No additional PCI cards.

Can anyone give a hint where this problem might come from?

Thanxs

Andreas

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Re: I/O stall with SuSE 10 Kernel [message #10575 is a reply to message #10572]

Thu, 22 February 2007 14:23

dev
Messages: 1693
Registered: September 2005
Location: Moscow

Senior Member

Well, in such situations it usually makes sense to check vmstat,
free memory (you can simply load vzwdog module).

But I would recommend you to upgrade to 2.6.18-028test015 kernel.
It has some new features and is our main target as the stable kernel
with long life support.

Thanks,
Kirill

> Hello
>
> I have setup a OpenVZ Server for the development with the SuSE 10
> Kerenl found at http://openvz.org/download/kernel/suse10/
> Teh machine has been running fine until this morning. It first get
> insane slow and then simply stops doing any file IO at all. It was not
> loaded by any means before and i can found no error messages in the
> logfiles. The only way to get the maschine up again was by
> power-cycling. The Hardware we are using runs fine on other heavily
> loaded SuSE 10 machines :
>
> - Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro with 2xOpteron 248 and 4GB ECC RAM
> - ICP Vortex GDT6513RS RAID Controller
>
> No additional PCI cards.
>
> Can anyone give a hint where this problem might come from?
>
> Thanxs
>
> Andreas
>
>

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Re: I/O stall with SuSE 10 Kernel [message #10605 is a reply to message #10575]

Fri, 23 February 2007 21:04

lst_hoe01
Messages: 15
Registered: February 2007

Junior Member

Zitat von Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>:

> Well, in such situations it usually makes sense to check vmstat,
> free memory (you can simply load vzwdog module).

I had "top" running at the time the machine was freezing, but there was
plenty of RAM (~ 2GB) still free.

> But I would recommend you to upgrade to 2.6.18-028test015 kernel.
> It has some new features and is our main target as the stable kernel
> with long life support.
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill

Is there a SuSE kompatibel rpm or do i have to compile the kernel
myself? It is vital to me that the ICP Controller is supported and i
don't know if the Fedora kernels do.

Thanxs

Andreas

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Re: I/O stall with SuSE 10 Kernel [message #10661 is a reply to message #10605]

Mon, 26 February 2007 10:08

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de wrote:
> Is there a SuSE kompatibel rpm or do i have to compile the kernel
> myself? It is vital to me that the ICP Controller is supported and i
> don't know if the Fedora kernels do.
You can install OpenVZ kernel from rpm using --nodeps option. It should
work properly! If it doesn't - it is a bug. The second way is to compile
kernel yourself.
If your controller is supported by SuSE kernel then with a great chance
it is supported by our kernel. If it isn't supported - file a bug to
OpenVZ and we probably include support of your device. If you want to
know more precisely is your controller supported or note, send us
output of `lspci` and `lspci -n` commands and we inform you.

HTH,
Vasily
>
> Thanxs
>
> Andreas
>
>

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Re: I/O stall with SuSE 10 Kernel [message #10664 is a reply to message #10661]

Mon, 26 February 2007 10:29

lst_hoe01
Messages: 15
Registered: February 2007

Junior Member

Zitat von Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>:

> lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de wrote:
>> Is there a SuSE kompatibel rpm or do i have to compile the kernel
>> myself? It is vital to me that the ICP Controller is supported and i
>> don't know if the Fedora kernels do.
> You can install OpenVZ kernel from rpm using --nodeps option. It should
> work properly! If it doesn't - it is a bug. The second way is to compile
> kernel yourself.
> If your controller is supported by SuSE kernel then with a great chance
> it is supported by our kernel. If it isn't supported - file a bug to
> OpenVZ and we probably include support of your device. If you want to
> know more precisely is your controller supported or note, send us
> output of `lspci` and `lspci -n` commands and we inform you.
>
> HTH,
> Vasily

Hallo

Thanxs for your help. If have included the lspci (-n) and would be glad
to here that the device is supported by the latest (standard FC5?)
kernel from openvz. It is smaller in size than the SuSE openvz kernel
so i was afraid that there are missing some SuSE centric drivers.

Regards

Andreas

Output "lspci"
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)
00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
(rev 12)
00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
(rev 12)
00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
02:03.0 SCSI storage controller: ICP Vortex Computersysteme GmbH GDT
6113RS/6513RS
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
03:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
03:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
03:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
100] (rev 10)

Output "lspci -n"
00:06.0 Class 0604: 1022:7460 (rev 07)
00:07.0 Class 0601: 1022:7468 (rev 05)
00:07.1 Class 0101: 1022:7469 (rev 03)
00:07.2 Class 0c05: 1022:746a (rev 02)
00:07.3 Class 0680: 1022:746b (rev 05)
00:0a.0 Class 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12)
00:0a.1 Class 0800: 1022:7451 (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Class 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12)
00:0b.1 Class 0800: 1022:7451 (rev 01)
00:18.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
00:19.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
00:19.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
00:19.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
00:19.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
02:03.0 Class 0100: 1119:0136
02:09.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 03)
02:09.1 Class 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 03)
03:00.0 Class 0c03: 1022:7464 (rev 0b)
03:00.1 Class 0c03: 1022:7464 (rev 0b)
03:06.0 Class 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27)
03:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 10)

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Re: I/O stall with SuSE 10 Kernel [message #10667 is a reply to message #10664]

Mon, 26 February 2007 10:51

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de wrote:
> Zitat von Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>:
>
>> lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de wrote:
>>> Is there a SuSE kompatibel rpm or do i have to compile the kernel
>>> myself? It is vital to me that the ICP Controller is supported and i
>>> don't know if the Fedora kernels do.
>> You can install OpenVZ kernel from rpm using --nodeps option. It should
>> work properly! If it doesn't - it is a bug. The second way is to compile
>> kernel yourself.
>> If your controller is supported by SuSE kernel then with a great chance
>> it is supported by our kernel. If it isn't supported - file a bug to
>> OpenVZ and we probably include support of your device. If you want to
>> know more precisely is your controller supported or note, send us
>> output of `lspci` and `lspci -n` commands and we inform you.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Vasily
>
> Hallo
>
> Thanxs for your help. If have included the lspci (-n) and would be
> glad to here that the device is supported by the latest (standard
> FC5?) kernel from openvz. It is smaller in size than the SuSE openvz
> kernel so i was afraid that there are missing some SuSE centric drivers.

Hello again,

I'm glad to inform you that both 2.6.18-028test and 2.6.9-023stable
series of OpenVZ kernels support your device.
Also I'd like to say, that OpenVZ kernels are more closely bind to RHEL
kernels, not to FC ones. For example, 2.6.9-023stable series is based on
RHEL4 kernel.
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas
>
> Output "lspci"
> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)
> 00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
> 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
> 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
> (rev 12)
> 00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
> (rev 12)
> 00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
> 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
> 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
> 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
> 02:03.0 SCSI storage controller: ICP Vortex Computersysteme GmbH GDT
> 6113RS/6513RS
> 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
> 02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev
> 0b)
> 03:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev
> 0b)
> 03:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
> 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
> 100] (rev 10)
>
> Output "lspci -n"
> 00:06.0 Class 0604: 1022:7460 (rev 07)
> 00:07.0 Class 0601: 1022:7468 (rev 05)
> 00:07.1 Class 0101: 1022:7469 (rev 03)
> 00:07.2 Class 0c05: 1022:746a (rev 02)
> 00:07.3 Class 0680: 1022:746b (rev 05)
> 00:0a.0 Class 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12)
> 00:0a.1 Class 0800: 1022:7451 (rev 01)
> 00:0b.0 Class 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12)
> 00:0b.1 Class 0800: 1022:7451 (rev 01)
> 00:18.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
> 00:18.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
> 00:18.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
> 00:18.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
> 00:19.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
> 00:19.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
> 00:19.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
> 00:19.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
> 02:03.0 Class 0100: 1119:0136
> 02:09.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 03)
> 02:09.1 Class 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 Class 0c03: 1022:7464 (rev 0b)
> 03:00.1 Class 0c03: 1022:7464 (rev 0b)
> 03:06.0 Class 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27)
> 03:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 10)
>
>
>
>

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