On 9/25/18 12:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm using f28 cloud on AWS as a compute farm. It seems that instances > randomly shutdown within hours of starting. An example log: > > ... > Fedora 28 (Cloud Edition) > Kernel 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64 on an x86_64 (ttyS0) > > Stopping Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown... > [[0;32m OK [0m] Removed slice system-sshd\x2dkeygen.slice. > Stopping User Manager for UID 1000... > ... > > In this case after about 4 hours it seems to have spontaneously shutdown. > This happens with high probability - maybe 2/10 instances I start > spontaneously shutdown. > > Any ideas what's going on? I'm just wondering if this is something specific > to fedora cloud edition, because it doesn't seem to be a common complaint on > AWS (most of which is ubuntu).
Are you getting emails from AWS that they're shutting down your instance? AWS does some testing and, should your instance fail their tests, they will shut it down "to protect others sharing the hardware". If this is what's happening, you should get an email about it (we get one perhaps 20% of the time) and if not, check the AWS admin portal under "Events" right after a restart. There should be a record about it. That record goes away after a while (not sure how long it hangs around). In my experience, AWS is rather vague as to just _what_ tests they use to determine if your instance is dangerous so it can be difficult to fix your code. We've got some AWS stuff that's been up for well over a year, but others they shut down because they fail these mysterious tests. If you're using instance store disks, the disk image is purged when you restart your instance so your logs probably don't contain why the system shut down the last time. The only way to hang onto that stuff is to use persistent (EBC) storage for your machine--at least for the logs (I'd recommend st1-type storage for logs). Persistent storage at AWS can get expensive depending on how big it is, but it may be necessary to sort this out. Once figured out, you can get rid of the EBS storage to minimize costs. This may be a Fedora Cloud issue. It may be something you're doing in an application. It may be AWS protecting itself. Hard to tell. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
