[ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liron Aravot" <laravot at redhat.com>
> To: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:51:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> > To: "Daniel Lang" <Daniel.Lang at redi.com>
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:23:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Daniel Lang" <Daniel.Lang at redi.com>
> > > To: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:24:48 PM
> > > Subject: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am creating a VM and the copy from template operation has gone haywire
> > > causing significant performance issues on the host server. I’d like to
> > > cancel the copying image action (it’s been running ~3hours on a 3GB disk
> > > image copy) but I cannot find anything in the web UI to cancel a task. Is
> > > there a command line tool to cancel the running task?
> > 
> > login to your SPM host and run the following
> > 
> > vdsClient -s 0 getAllTasksStatuses
> > 
> > You can than use
> > 
> > stopTask
> >         <TaskID>
> >         stop async task
> > 
> > and then
> > 
> > clearTask
> >         <TaskID>
> >         clear async task
> > 
> > 
> > 
> I suggest to only stop the task/tasks and let the ovirt engine to perform the
> clearance of the tasks.

+1 - I agree with Liron.
Let AsyncTaskManager handle the task clearing - it will also remove relevant entries from db.
Ravi, what do you think?

> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The oVirt version is 3.4 and vdsm version 4.14.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any advice or links to documentation/man pages.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Daniel Lang
> > > 
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