openvz container missing parameter

Hi,

first off I did not follow this guide
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-and-using-openvz-on-ubuntu-10.04

i'm running ubuntu 10.04, I followed a debian guide and everything is working 100% with kernel 2.6.32-042stab049.6, a rhel6 based kernel

For Ispconfig everything works if I fill out everything in "Advanced" UBC parameters for the VM template, but if I create a template without changing the parameters, Vmguarpages, Oomguarpages, Privvmpages and Shmpages get some default values and the other ones are blank. When I create a container with this template logs say:

2012-02-22T13:22:01+0000 vzctl : CT 101 : Error: required UB parameter swappages not set

and /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/101.conf has no values

...
# Parameters
ONBOOT="yes"
KMEMSIZE=""
LOCKEDPAGES=""
PRIVVMPAGES="98304:98304"
SHMPAGES="65536:65536"
NUMPROC=""
PHYSPAGES=""
VMGUARPAGES="65536:65536"
OOMGUARPAGES="65536:65536"
NUMTCPSOCK=""
NUMFLOCK=""
NUMPTY=""
NUMSIGINFO=""
TCPSNDBUF=""
TCPRCVBUF=""
OTHERSOCKBUF=""
DGRAMRCVBUF=""
NUMOTHERSOCK=""
DCACHESIZE=""
NUMFILE=""
AVNUMPROC=""
NUMIPTENT=""
...

The problem is that guessing or calculating advanced values is not my cup of tea, tried that and the VM reports 80GB of RAM in a 256M container Maybe the rhel6 based kernel needs this value but doesn't get it in a script ispconfig runs when UBC parameters are not set ?

Regards,
Kristinn.

 

Ok, do you know if these are the default ispconfig values?

Numproc - 999999:999999
Numtcpsock - 7999992:7999992
Numothersock - 7999992:7999992
Vmguarpages - 262144:262144
Kmemsize - 2147483646:2147483646
Tcpsndbuf - 214748160:396774400
Tcprcvbuf - 214748160:396774400
Othersockbuf - 214748160:396774400
Dgramcvbuf - 214748160:396774400
Oomguarpages - 262144:262144
Privvmpages - 393216:393216
Lockedpages - 999999:999999
Shmpages - 262144:262144
Physpages - 0:2147483647
Numfile - 23999976:23999976
Avnumproc - 180:180
Numflock - 999999:999999
Numpty - 500000:500000
Numsigninfo - 999999:999999
Dcachesize - 2147483646:2147483646
Numiptent - 999999:999999
Swappages - 256000:256000

ok... I did not see the last value "Swappages" until now... I recovered these values from a db backup of dbispconfig when I deleted all VM templates. But if these are the default values should they be ok for any vps size in terms of ram? Or do you recommend changing values based on vps ram size :]

any idea why free reports these numbers ?

root@testvps:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8589934588 28324 8589906264 0 0 18184
-/+ buffers/cache: 10140 8589924448
Swap: 0 0 0

RAM: 256MB
Burst: 384MB
CPU units: 30000
CPU number: 1
CPU limit %: 20

 

I'm having the same issue.

Digging through the code, there is nothing actually applying the config entered into the template for the paramater swapspace. The template file itself web/vm/templates/openvz.conf.tpl don't even have it in.

I'm running the latest OpenVZ that needs swappages parameter specified.

Should i log bug for this?

L:

 

It works for me when I have the last Swappages specified, for the UBC parameters I had to read the openvz wiki and understand these param...

http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_configuration_examples
http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_configuration_examples_table

free still reports wrong numbers. It seems to work though when I run a script to eat up memory, exactly when burst memory is reached the service is killed, is that normal though?

 

Kiddiak, I specify the swappages, it shows in the Database, but it don't get written to the config file itself on disk.

Which version of OpenVZ are you running?

 

Direct copy out of DB table: dbispconfig.openvz_vm;
You will notice no Swapfile option ..

What is in you DB?

Column: Config:

# Template version
VERSION="2"

# Parameters
ONBOOT="yes"
KMEMSIZE="unlimited"
LOCKEDPAGES="unlimited"
PRIVVMPAGES="3840:3840"
SHMPAGES="3840:3840"
NUMPROC="unlimited"
PHYSPAGES="0:52842"
VMGUARPAGES="3840:3840"
OOMGUARPAGES="3840:3840"
NUMTCPSOCK="unlimited"
NUMFLOCK="unlimited"
NUMPTY="unlimited"
NUMSIGINFO="unlimited"
TCPSNDBUF="unlimited"
TCPRCVBUF="unlimited"
OTHERSOCKBUF="unlimited"
DGRAMRCVBUF="unlimited"
NUMOTHERSOCK="unlimited"
DCACHESIZE="unlimited"
NUMFILE="unlimited"
AVNUMPROC="unlimited"
NUMIPTENT="unlimited"

DISKSPACE="15728640:15728640"
DISKINODES="7864320:7864320"
QUOTAUGIDLIMIT="10000"
IOPRIO="4"
QUOTATIME="0"

CPUS="4"
CPUUNITS="1000"
CPULIMIT="400"

VE_ROOT="/vz/root/$VEID"
VE_PRIVATE="/vz/private/$VEID"
OSTEMPLATE="centos-6-x86-devel"
ORIGIN_SAMPLE="vps.basic"
HOSTNAME="v102.test.tld"
IP_ADDRESS="10.0.0.52"
NAMESERVER="8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"
# alternative meminfo: "pages:256000"
MEMINFO="privvmpages:1"

CAPABILITY="asdf"

 

ok I see it's not written anywhere... strange, then this param. had nothing to do with vm's not starting, just other values when not specified, but for a 256MB container my conf are

# Template version
VERSION="2"

# Parameters
ONBOOT="yes"
KMEMSIZE="16384000:18022400"
LOCKEDPAGES="4096"
PRIVVMPAGES="98304:98304"
SHMPAGES="65536:65536"
NUMPROC="400"
PHYSPAGES="0:2147483647"
VMGUARPAGES="65536:65536"
OOMGUARPAGES="65536:65536"
NUMTCPSOCK="500"
NUMFLOCK="200:220"
NUMPTY="64"
NUMSIGINFO="512"
TCPSNDBUF="5365760:10485760"
TCPRCVBUF="5365760:10485760"
OTHERSOCKBUF="1503232:4063232"
DGRAMRCVBUF="262144"
NUMOTHERSOCK="500"
DCACHESIZE="4194304:4317184"
NUMFILE="8192"
AVNUMPROC="200"
NUMIPTENT="999999:999999"

DISKSPACE="10485760:10485760"
DISKINODES="5242880:5242880"
QUOTAUGIDLIMIT="10000"
IOPRIO="4"
QUOTATIME="0"

CPUS="1"
CPUUNITS="30000"
CPULIMIT="20"

VE_ROOT="/vz/root/$VEID"
VE_PRIVATE="/vz/private/$VEID"
OSTEMPLATE="ubuntu-10.04-x86_64"
ORIGIN_SAMPLE="vps.basic"
HOSTNAME="testvps.mydomain.tld"
IP_ADDRESS="x.x.x.x"
NAMESERVER="x.x.x.x x.x.x.x"
# alternative meminfo: "pages:256000"
MEMINFO="privvmpages:1"

CAPABILITY="" ( asdf in your conf ? )

i was reading openvz has no version nr just the kernel version, I have 2.6.32-042stab049.6 and vzctl and vzquota from ubuntu repos