Re: LFS and Xen3 testing

[Jed Davis <jdev%panix.com@localhost>]

Daniel Carosone <dan%geek.com.au@localhost> writes:

>  * Sometimes, all disk activity will stop, and something (usually the
>    cleaner) is stuck in biowait.  I suspect this to be a Xen issue.
>    Dom0 is linux with LVM2 volumes for the xbd backend, domU is
>    -current a day or two old.  It seems most easily (or even only?) 
>    triggered when dom0 is busy with CPU-heavy tasks.

I've just recently discovered something interesting with Xen3 that
might be related: if the dom0 is running something that spins the CPU
(like "perl -e '1 while 1'" or "yes > /dev/null") the NetBSD domU will
not be run at all; it won't respond to the console nor to network
traffic, and its timer event handler won't be called.  A Linux domU
doesn't appear to have the same problem.

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