[ovirt-users] Weekly fstrim & Ubuntu 16.04 LTS guest freeze
Andrei Verovski
andreil1 at starlett.lv
Mon Mar 12 12:50:28 UTC 2018
On 03/12/2018 01:50 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Andrei Verovski <andreil1 at starlett.lv
> <mailto:andreil1 at starlett.lv>> wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
>
> I have stubborn VM (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) which randomly freezes about
> each 2 - 3 weeks at weekends (when load is close to zero).
> No updates or kernel upgrades help.
> Freeze is not detected by oVirt watchdog and VM is not
> automatically restarted.
>
> Since it happens only on weekends, I suspect some weekly cron job
> may cause this.
> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is installed on qcow2 disk image (thin provision).
> is it possible that fstrim (which discards / trims unused blocks)
> is a source of this problem ?
>
>
> Are you using virtio-blk (which doesn't support it) or virtio-SCSI
> (which does)?
> Also, does the storage support trimming? Not all do.
I'm using virtio-SCSI, Ubuntu thin provision disk formatted as ext4 boot
+ ext4 root + swap.
Disk image on ext4 RAID 1.
> Y.
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> Thanks in advance
> Andrei
>
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