From: Kent Hoxsey <khoxsey@paradigm-healthcare.com>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: kernel BUG at mm/swapfile.c:2527! [was 3.0.0 Xen pv guest - BUG: Unable to handle]
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:12:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FD11FB67713F5F4CA0569B3F0468ED751A5CD2FF@SF1EXCH1.PHS> (raw)
I am arriving to this discussion via a pointer on the Amazon AWS forums. There appear to be a number of threads with people experiencing some version of this issue (high IOwait%, httpd cpu load spike, etc.)
I currently have an AWS instance that appears to experience this problem every day at the same time (1:50pm Pacific), but has enough cpu horsepower to handle the surge and recover. Since it is a part of my production infrastructure, I cannot allow other people to log in, but I can certainly run diagnostics to help identify the issue. If anyone would like to suggest what diagnostics would be helpful I will try to collect them.
Kent
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As an example, following is a snip from mpstat during the load spike. Watching top at the same time, all of the httpd processes jump from 0.2% cpu to 15% or more, and then recover together once the spike passes:
08:49:31 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
...
08:49:46 PM all 2.53 0.00 0.35 0.15 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.00 96.86
08:49:51 PM all 3.63 0.00 0.52 0.16 0.00 0.10 0.05 0.00 95.53
08:49:56 PM all 6.77 0.00 3.44 0.22 0.00 0.16 0.00 0.00 89.40
08:50:01 PM all 53.19 0.00 41.04 0.00 0.00 0.30 5.48 0.00 0.00
08:50:06 PM all 57.62 0.00 35.25 0.10 0.00 1.19 4.75 0.00 1.09
08:50:11 PM all 34.85 0.00 19.09 43.20 0.00 0.77 0.46 0.00 1.62
08:50:16 PM all 50.85 0.00 19.54 26.88 0.00 0.51 0.09 0.00 2.13
08:50:21 PM all 31.87 0.00 16.87 49.18 0.00 0.45 0.07 0.00 1.57
08:50:26 PM all 31.83 0.00 15.73 49.63 0.00 0.52 0.00 0.00 2.29
08:50:31 PM all 30.50 0.00 16.91 51.03 0.00 0.30 0.07 0.00 1.18
08:50:36 PM all 30.83 0.00 18.24 49.66 0.00 0.22 0.00 0.00 1.04
08:50:41 PM all 33.58 0.00 15.86 48.47 0.00 0.22 0.07 0.00 1.79
08:50:46 PM all 51.06 0.00 18.04 24.30 0.00 0.76 2.03 0.00 3.81
08:50:51 PM all 69.61 0.00 23.73 0.39 0.00 0.39 4.22 0.00 1.67
08:50:56 PM all 72.11 0.00 21.41 0.00 0.00 0.50 5.98 0.00 0.00
08:51:01 PM all 71.84 0.00 21.44 0.10 0.00 0.59 5.43 0.00 0.59
08:51:06 PM all 66.24 0.00 23.71 2.93 0.00 1.17 5.37 0.00 0.59
08:51:11 PM all 67.97 0.00 22.66 1.95 0.00 0.68 5.27 0.00 1.46
08:51:16 PM all 68.07 0.00 23.34 2.54 0.00 0.59 4.69 0.00 0.78
08:51:21 PM all 55.47 0.00 8.56 2.80 0.00 0.25 1.98 0.00 30.95
08:51:26 PM all 38.44 0.00 2.07 1.24 0.00 0.21 0.07 0.00 57.97
08:51:31 PM all 12.65 0.00 1.85 0.87 0.00 0.40 0.00 0.00 84.23
08:51:36 PM all 7.60 0.00 1.14 12.64 0.00 0.22 0.05 0.00 78.35
08:51:41 PM all 10.29 0.00 0.99 0.12 0.00 0.29 0.00 0.00 88.31
08:51:46 PM all 6.94 0.00 0.65 0.11 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 92.25
08:51:51 PM all 7.05 0.00 0.86 0.43 0.00 0.11 0.05 0.00 91.49
next reply other threads:[~2011-09-17 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 18:12 Kent Hoxsey [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-26 17:42 3.0.0 Xen pv guest - BUG: Unable to handle kernel paging request in swap_count_continued Peter Sandin
2011-08-29 14:39 ` kernel BUG at mm/swapfile.c:2527! [was 3.0.0 Xen pv guest - BUG: Unable to handle] Christopher S. Aker
2011-08-29 15:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-08-30 11:45 ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-31 20:43 ` Christopher S. Aker
2011-09-06 17:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-12 16:06 ` Christopher S. Aker
2011-09-12 16:11 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-15 18:58 ` Christopher S. Aker
2011-09-15 19:17 ` Christopher S. Aker
2011-09-18 15:05 ` Christopher S. Aker
2011-09-21 18:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-21 22:09 ` Christopher S. Aker
2011-09-22 18:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-22 20:02 ` Christopher S. Aker
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