Doug Stewart on 21 Sep 2010 18:53:20 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Need Troubleshooting Advice: Disk Errors in Virtual Machines

  • From: Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>
  • To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Need Troubleshooting Advice: Disk Errors in Virtual Machines
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:53:36 -0400
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Do you have entries from /var/log/messages from either the host or the VMs from around the time of the crashes? Are you seeing actual IOerror entries?

--
Doug Stewart

On Sep 21, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 September 2010 7:25:26 pm Lee Marzke wrote:
>> On 09/21/2010 06:04 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:
>>> I've got a weird problem which I hope somebody here can help me figure
>>> out.
>>> 
>>> I'm running about a dozen virtual machines (mostly web servers) on a
>>> triple- core AMD system running Debian Lenny (ie: "Stable").  Each of
>>> the virtual machines is also running Debian Lenny.
>>> 
>>> I am having repeated disk errors on the Virtual Machines, but no disk
>>> errors on the host machine.  These disk errors often cause a Kernel
>>> Panic within the VM, or otherwise crash the web server on the VM.
> 
>> 
>> What are the specs on the host,  memory,  number/type of disks,   vmware
>> server version
>> amount of RAM allocated to VM's  and amount left over for the host.
> 
> 
> 
> Host Specs:
> 
> AMD Phenom Triple Core 2.4 GHz
> ASRock Motherboad with AMD RS870L chipset
> 4 GBytes G.Skill RAM (2 DIMMS)
> 
> Debian Lenny 
> VMware Server 2.0.2 Build 203138
> 
> 
> free reports:
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       3935036    3902036      33000          0     154324    2704932
> -/+ buffers/cache:    1042780    2892256
> Swap:     11807732        748   11806984
> 
> df -h reports:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             576G  184G  363G  34% /
> tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M  748K  9.3M   8% /dev
> tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
> 
> 
> 
> Most VM's given 64 MBytes RAM and 3 GByte SATA disks (which are fully 
> allocated when they are created)
> 
> Here's a mem and free from within a "typical" VM:
> 
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         61480      58980       2500          0      26456      12560
> -/+ buffers/cache:      19964      41516
> Swap:       176672        540     176132
> 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             2.8G  676M  2.0G  25% /
> tmpfs                  31M     0   31M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M  600K  9.5M   6% /dev
> tmpfs                  31M     0   31M   0% /dev/shm
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Casey Bralla
> Chief Nerd in Residence
> The NerdWorld Organisation
> http://www.NerdWorld.org
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