Re: [uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:58:08PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are using sparse file for swap files I don't think it will take more than tenth of that space. Swapping onto a sparse file is really a bad idea. What happens if the host filesystem fills up and the UML tries to swap? The

Re: [uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:29:17AM -0500, Jeremy Anderson wrote: > guest machines randomly crash. They aren't sending me anything via > syslog (I've configured them to log to the host machine), and they don't > appear to log anything to STDOUT. I can make machines crash with the > message in t

Re: [uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-09-04 Thread jjkola
Hi! Anthony Brock wrote: > > I have 4 GB of physical RAM in the Ubuntu box + 3 GB swap. It is > > running a vanilla 2.6.17.8 kernel (no skas3 patches, because I haven't > > successfully managed to apply any sets of skas3 patches) > Here is an interesting problem. Each instance has 48M. You're l

Re: [uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-09-01 Thread Anthony Brock
Since nobody else has replied, comments are inline below. > -Original Message- > I'm trying to run about 50 UML hosts on a dual-processor (each > dual-core) Opteron system, running 64-bit Ubuntu 6.06LTS . In my experience, this is a LOT for one machine. Remember that each UML is probably

[uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-08-31 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Greetings oh UML gurus... I'm trying to run about 50 UML hosts on a dual-processor (each dual-core) Opteron system, running 64-bit Ubuntu 6.06LTS . I have 4 GB of physical RAM in the Ubuntu box + 3 GB swap. It is running a vanilla 2.6.17.8 kernel (no skas3 patches, because I haven't successfu