Bug 330521 - [ia64-xen][storage][hts-5.1.4][RHEL5.1] - Storage is FAIL due to the failure swapoff device
Summary: [ia64-xen][storage][hts-5.1.4][RHEL5.1] - Storage is FAIL due to the failure ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Hardware Certification Program
Classification: Retired
Component: Test Suite (tests)
Version: 5
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: YangKun
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Reported: 2007-10-13 08:46 UTC by Satyabrata Maitra
Modified: 2008-07-16 22:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-11-01 08:03:15 UTC
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required files for ia64-xen (920.00 KB, application/x-tar)
2007-10-13 08:46 UTC, Satyabrata Maitra
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Description Satyabrata Maitra 2007-10-13 08:46:30 UTC
Description of problem:
When tested this hardware for hts-5.1.4, for ia64 arch, with RHEL5.1-Server, its
FAILED, due to the error showing "can not swapoff sda3". The required files are
attached here with this bug.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hts-5.1.4
Tree followed RHEL5.1-Server-20071011.0

How reproducible:
Performed once, and reproduced.

FYI : When tested it with hts-5.1.1 in the same system, that time storage test
was PASS including its info test.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Its Fail

Expected results:
It should PASS

Additional info:

Comment 1 Satyabrata Maitra 2007-10-13 08:46:30 UTC
Created attachment 226331 [details]
required files for ia64-xen

Comment 2 YangKun 2007-10-25 15:17:38 UTC
Error is "swapoff: /dev/sda3: Cannot allocate memory"

the reason is because this system is runing out of memory!

only about 400MB RAM available on the system, and only 4MB free:
----------------------------------
MemTotal:       431104 kB
MemFree:          4768 kB
Buffers:         11008 kB
Cached:          81888 kB
SwapCached:      56384 kB
Active:         118832 kB
Inactive:        49872 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       431104 kB
LowFree:          4768 kB
SwapTotal:     2097120 kB
SwapFree:      1854720 kB
Dirty:           18032 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       75792 kB
Mapped:          30192 kB
Slab:            44992 kB
PageTables:       9024 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   2312672 kB
Committed_AS:   746976 kB
VmallocTotal: 137430563184 kB
VmallocUsed:     22736 kB
VmallocChunk: 137430539024 kB
----------------------------------

but there are more than 200MB swap space are in use:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda3                               partition       2097120 242400  -1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

so swapoff of course will get the "Cannot allocate memory" without any doubt.

The test machine was running on a xen kernel and seems there're some domU guests
running. could you please confirm ? If yes, then could you please shutdown some
domU and release some memory for dom0 ? make sure there are enough free
memory(more than 500MB) available on the machine(for dom0), and then could you
please re-run the STORAGE test ?

Thanks
-YK

Comment 3 Yan Tian 2007-11-01 07:58:03 UTC
This bug could not be reproduced with both hts-5.1.4-el5 and hts-5.1.8-el5 in
RHEL5.1-Server-20071017.0 ia64_xen system. So resolved it.


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