[Fedora-xen] Recurring Zombie (XenU used as a web server)

[Rik van Riel]

Gregor Pirnaver wrote:
> For some weeks I have a problem with XenU domain used as web server. It is
> turning into Zombie domain:
> 
> # xm list
> Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> Domain-0                           0      641     4 r-----   263.6
> Zombie-wwwmain                     2      512     1 ----cd  5238.4

Is that a fully virtualized domain, or paravirt ?

> (Both Xen0 and XenU are running FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174.)
> 
> - How can I find out what is causing this problem?
> - How can I fix it / work around it / report a bug?

If it is paravirt, you can "xm sysrq <domain> <key>" to get
some debugging output.

If the domain in question is fully virt, do you have a stale
qemu-dm hanging around?

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