On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:30:30PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > I wonder if something is hitting the 'max_client_requests' limit and > getting stalled. > > The initial thread message here says the lockup is happening during > bulk concurrent live migrations of 200 VMs, 5 at a time. > > The default 'max_client_requests' is 5.... DANGER WILL ROBINSON... > > With live migration making requests across multiple libvirt daemons, > if the target host has filled its 5 requests queue with long running > operations, and then a "prepare migrate' call comes in, that'll get > stalled behind a possibly slow operation at the RPC dispatch level. > > I'd suggest bumping 'max_client_requests' to 100 and seeing if the > problem goes away. > > If so I wonder if we shouldn't raise our out of the box limits. > '5' is pretty low considering the scale of virtualization hosts > in the modern world, and where even my laptop has 20 CPUs and > 64 GB of RAM.
FWIW I was running a simple workload inside KubeVirt (a test case that's part of its functional test suite and involves spawning and subsequently migrating a single VM) yesterday and I could see warnings about hitting max_client_requests in the logs. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@lists.libvirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.libvirt.org
