FC11 - KVM based VM become halt after heavy rsync

[Linux student]

Mohammad Mateen Aslam on 2009-08-28 19:14 PM +0500, wrote :
> Hi guys
>
> I have am using FC11 64bit on Host and same OS on KVM based guest machine. I am using TAP based routing network inside host. I am using virtio network driver for my guest machine
>
> When i transfer huge data via rsync from another live host my guest machine got halt with following errors in log. I need to restart network service to make guest VM back. 
>
> With 512M RAM for guest VM, it got halt for 5G data transffer via rsync
> With 1G RAM  for guest VM, it got halt if  i try to shift 15G data transffer via rsync
>
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 #1
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Call Trace:
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810a50c8>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x40d/0x429
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff810c7311>] alloc_pages_current+0xb7/0xc0
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffffa0057913>] try_fill_recv+0xa8/0x18d [virtio_net]
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffffa00584a7>] virtnet_poll+0x518/0x57d [virtio_net]
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff8130eccd>] net_rx_action+0xb7/0x1b1
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff8104df7f>] __do_softirq+0x94/0x155
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff8101274c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff810138ce>] do_softirq+0x52/0xb9
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff8104dba2>] irq_exit+0x53/0x90
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff81013bf7>] do_IRQ+0x12c/0x151
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff81011e93>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x2e
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: <EOI>  [<ffffffff8102942c>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0xd
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff81017d30>] ? default_idle+0x51/0x7c
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff813af519>] ? atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x13/0x15
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff81010237>] ? enter_idle+0x27/0x29
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff810102a1>] ? cpu_idle+0x68/0xb3
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: [<ffffffff81398367>] ? rest_init+0x6b/0x6d
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Mem-Info:
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 191
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Active_anon:5593 active_file:26509 inactive_anon:7932
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: inactive_file:177229 unevictable:0 dirty:16171 writeback:52 unstable:0
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: free:1334 slab:10907 mapped:3728 pagetables:1340 bounce:0
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Node 0 DMA free:3892kB min:24kB low:28kB high:36kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:24kB inactive_file:4024kB unevictable:0kB present:6368kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 970 970 970
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:1444kB min:3972kB low:4964kB high:5956kB active_anon:22372kB inactive_anon:31728kB active_file:106012kB inactive_file:704892kB unevictable:0kB present:993776kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3892kB
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1428kB
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: 203802 total pagecache pages
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: 0 pages in swap cache
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Free swap  = 2096440kB
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: Total swap = 2096440kB
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: 255984 pages RAM
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: 8458 pages reserved
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: 214776 pages shared
> Aug 28 12:43:08 phili-p kernel: 43672 pages non-shared
>
> Note: i want to use my VM for heavy rsync backups. Experts are request to have some solution for the problem
>
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Any one facing same problem?..