On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Gael <gael.marti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Many thanks to Bob Netherton and Jeff for their quick help on that painful > issue. > The solution was to use psrset -f on the heavily used pset. > It is fully supported and a recommended situation when CPU starvation causes > interrupts not to be serviced in time and they get lost. Credit goes to > Rickey Weisner for this tip. > > I have monitored that zone today for multiple hours without seeing any > packet loss while it was cranking up its cpu usage... > Jeff, following a previous mail today, as a fervent customer ;), I would > love to see that feature directly accessible thru the zone configuration to > avoid having to create a script and a dirty workaround to enable that > feature on boot. Is there a RFE # out there that I can be added to thru Sun > Support ? Got a case opened on that issue.
Yes, the CR is 6199531 - "Device interrupts not bound to cpus configured within a nonglobal zone" Please ask your contact in Sun Service to add an SR for you. > Will continue to monitor the situation for a few days, and if I see anything > wrong, I will update that thread > Again, thanks ! > Regards > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jeff Victor <jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com> wrote: > - Show quoted text - >> >> Hello Gael, >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Gael <gael.marti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > Got a zone running SAS with cpu capping enabled using a processor set as we >> > see a few processes using quite a bit of cpu there too often. >> >> Is that zone assigned to a resource pool, or is it using the >> dedicated-cpus feature? >> >> > When the process is running (chewing 100% of its pset), the frame nic >> > (server is a E2900 with a ce interface) is dropping 20-30 % of its packets >> > causing a headache. >> >> My first guess is that the NICs interrupts are going to a CPU that the >> zone is using, and the CPU doesn't have enough power to run the zone's >> workload *and* be an effective NIC interrupt handler. >> >> Please run the "intrstat" command as root in the global zone, to >> determine which CPU is handling interrupts for that NIC. Also, check >> which CPU(s) that zone can use. >> >> Please let us know what you learn from those. >> >> > Doesn't appear to be a network load issue. Not a lot happening there >> > visibly. >> > >> > With Solaris 10 u4 or u6, what elegant way would you recommend to avoid >> > that >> > disruption caused by a single zone ? -- --JeffV _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
