Bug 1433961 - Disable overcommit by default when creating new cluster
Summary: Disable overcommit by default when creating new cluster
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ovirt-engine
Version: 3.6.10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.1.2
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Assignee: Martin Sivák
QA Contact: Shira Maximov
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1435954 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-20 13:18 UTC by Martin Sivák
Modified: 2019-04-28 13:19 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Release Note
Doc Text:
Previously, it was possible to configure memory overcommit without setting memory ballooning or KSM control. This configuration affected the scheduling, but the memory was not freed. This has now been fixed by disabling ballooning and KSM by default, and setting memory optimization to “None” (100%).
Clone Of:
: 1434013 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-05-24 11:22:20 UTC
oVirt Team: SLA
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2017:1280 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Red Hat Virtualization Manager (ovirt-engine) 4.1.2 2017-05-24 15:18:48 UTC
oVirt gerrit 74312 0 master MERGED core: Use no overcommit as the default cluster memory policy 2017-03-20 14:35:37 UTC
oVirt gerrit 74313 0 ovirt-engine-4.1 MERGED core: Use no overcommit as the default cluster memory policy 2017-03-20 21:28:29 UTC
oVirt gerrit 74825 0 master MERGED core: New cluster has disabled overcommit by default (for real now) 2017-03-29 14:12:16 UTC
oVirt gerrit 74833 0 ovirt-engine-4.1 MERGED core: New cluster has disabled overcommit by default (for real now) 2017-03-29 15:11:36 UTC

Description Martin Sivák 2017-03-20 13:18:55 UTC
Description of problem:

Currently new clusters have ballooning and KSM disabled by default and overcommit set to 200% by default.

Configuring overcommit without ballooning or KSM does not make any sense. It will affect scheduling (the engine will think it has more memory), but nothing will actually free the memory.

A recent change introduced a check for this situation, but we forgot to change the default value.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.6.11, 4.1.2 and master branch as of 20th of March

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a cluster using REST API providing only name

Actual results:

407 Conflict - it is not possible to enable overcommit without ballooning or KSM

Expected results:

OK - cluster created with all ballooning, KSM and overcommit disabled

Additional info:

We tested a workaround using Python SDK to verify a cluster can be created when the overcommit value is provided:

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/74303/1

Comment 4 Doron Fediuck 2017-03-27 06:40:38 UTC
*** Bug 1435954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-24 11:22:20 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2017:1280


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