On Monday 06 February 2006 03:21, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a UML running on a server here, but whenever I copy a large > number of files across via hostfs it seems to lock up the UML. I have > gkrellmd running and I can see the system load (of the UML) skyrocket > just before gkrellmd dies and I lose access to the UML. Sometimes I > can still switch between virtual terminals with Ctrl+A,Ctrl+A via the > 'screen' program running via SSH within the UML, so it hasn't > completely locked up, but anything that tries to access the disk gets > stuck. > > Sometimes gkrellmd keeps running and the load appears to go higher and > higher, but even 24 hours later the UML has still frozen. > > I've never observed this behaviour with the other four UMLs running on > the same machine, but then again they aren't running anything > disk-intensive.
> UML is 2.6.14 (same executable for all UMLs) sitting on a > 2.6.14-skas3-v9-pre7 SMP host. All UMLs are using the same base disk > image, with a different COW image on top of that for each UML. If you enabled CONFIG_SMP in the _UML_ compilation (verify with ./vmlinux --showconfig), disable it now. I don't know of specific bugs but I'm sure there can be some if you enable that... > Any ideas as to why it keeps locking up? When I first set up this UML > it also froze when running 'mysql_install_db' and it has also locked up > on occasion when compiling programs, so I don't think it's hostfs to > blame. > Thanks, > Adam. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
