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Slow server after some days| PaulVM |
Posted: Mar 22 2012, 11:34 PM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Member No.: 1396 Joined: 22-March 12  |
I installed my first SL 6.x box as VM (KVM under Proxmox)
Install Ok, configuration Ok (using 32 bit minimal + virtualmin + few pkgs that I usually install on CentOS/RH). The box works fine, but after some days of normal activity become really slow (worse of a trashed server that is working on swap memory, but this isn't the current problem). I reset the VM and this temporary "solve" the problem. Any idea on what can be the source of the problem? Thanks, P. N.B.: Initial install was SL 6.1. Updated to 6.2, all updates. No differences |
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| redman |
Posted: Apr 1 2012, 04:53 PM
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 SLF Admin  Group: Admins Posts: 1705 Member No.: 2 Joined: 8-April 11 |
Have you checked the running processes to see if there is something abnormal going on?
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| PaulVM |
Posted: Apr 2 2012, 11:35 AM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Member No.: 1396 Joined: 22-March 12 |
Being a production server I usually rebooted it ASAP to have services restored. Yesterday I tried to simply restart network and this solve the problem. I haven't noticied big amount of processes or strange things. Only that the network is very slow and if I ping outside there is an high number of packet loss (another nic that connect to a NFS server seems not have the problem). Any hints on what can be checked? Thanks, P. |
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| toracat |
Posted: Apr 2 2012, 04:09 PM
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The problem you are seeing might share the same cause as this one in the CentOS bug tracker:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5526 Try a workaround suggested in there; use of the e1000 driver instead of virtio. Also, you may not have to reboot the guest, ifdown/ifup might help, etc. -------------------- ELRepo: repository specialized in hardware support for EL
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| PaulVM |
Posted: Apr 4 2012, 10:44 AM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Member No.: 1396 Joined: 22-March 12 |
Thanks for the hint.
My external nic was a pcnet (Host is Proxmox/Debian and Client is a 32 bit SL instead of 64bit). Changed to e1000. Hope this solve. ;-) If you don't read me again in the next days ... ;-) Thanks, P. |
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| PaulVM |
Posted: Apr 30 2012, 02:20 PM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Member No.: 1396 Joined: 22-March 12 |
After 3 weeks I can say that changing the NIC driver solved the problem. Thanks again, P. |
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| redman |
Posted: Apr 30 2012, 05:36 PM
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SLF Admin Group: Admins Posts: 1705 Member No.: 2 Joined: 8-April 11 |
Thanks for reporting back that it worked
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