Recently moved to XS 8.2 on new hardware - seen a couple of FreeBSD DomU lock ups?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:00:17 UTC
Hi all, We've been running FreeBSD as a DomU under Xen Server for years now, and only really had a few now 'known' issues (e.g. with networking). We've recently setup XS 8.2 on some new Dell servers, and whilst everything appears fine - twice now in a couple of weeks we've had FreeBSD DomU's just "lock up". There's no errors logged, no kernel panic, nothing - they just "stop". Xen reckons the CPU is pegged at 100% (with brief periods of zero) - the console is still 'available' (but locked up) - and the kernel is dead (i.e. you cannot ping it). Aside from the "Has anyone else seen similar" - with nothing in the logs, no panic, nothing - I'm kind of at a loss as to how best to troubleshoot this further? The VM's are lightly loaded - haven't run out of resources (RAM /CPU etc.) - and it's only happened a couple of times now (but in a couple of weeks) - whereas our setup before never experienced this in it's lifetime. One was a legacy 11.4 system (amd64) - the other was a 12.3 system (amd64). A forced reboot brings them back (with some file system damage - as you'd expect from a crash). Just at a loss as to where to look - given the lack of any panic/errors etc. Any suggestions? Regards, -Karl