Public bug reported:
Everytime /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray RAID consistency check is being
executed (started on first sunday of a month by /etc/cron.d/mdadm) on
Ubuntu 12.04.4 KVM hypervisor, KVM guests running on the host
(Ubuntu/Debian/Scientific linux/Windows ) start to swap, freeze,
throwing 'BUG: soft lockup - CPU stuck for..!' errors on the consoles,
processes are coredumping on the guests etc. KVM host starts to swap
even it has enough memory available and every disk IO demanding
operation/process on any guest causes whole environment is affected and
unusable (similar situation to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/312163).
RAID check procedure shouldn't cause the KVM guests become unusable.
Some of the KVM guests use either qcow2 image storage format (virtio) or
RAW disks (LVM, virtio). All KVM guests are affected.
Here is the system information:
root@kvmserver:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04
root@kvmserver:~# uname -a
Linux kvmserver 3.2.0-59-generic #90-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 7 22:43:51 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
HW: Dell PowerEdge R410, 2x Intel Xeon X5650, 64GB RAM, 4x2TB SATA 6.0Gb drives
in following RAID configuration:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
[raid10]
md2 : active raid1 sdd3[2] sdc3[0]
1924018648 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sdd2[0] sdc2[1]
29296576 blocks [4/2] [UU__]
md127 : active raid1 sde1[2] sdf1[0]
2147481446 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 64419 56859 7559 0 11671 1185
-/+ buffers/cache: 44002 20416
Swap: 18335 5554 12781
root@kvmserver:~# dpkg -l |egrep 'qemu-kvm|mdadm'
ii kvm
1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+1.2.0+dfsg+0~12.04~ppa0 dummy transitional package from kvm
to qemu-kvm
ii mdadm 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.3
tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
ii qemu 1.2.0+dfsg-0~12.04~ppa0
dummy transitional package from qemu to qemu-kvm
ii qemu-kvm 1.2.0+dfsg-0~12.04~ppa0
Full virtualization on supported hardware
** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
md raid resync causing KVM guests overload
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