Very high load after a few days

Alternativende

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Hello together,
i have a quite huge problem with a extremely high load on a Proxmox 4 server and i don´t know where this comes from.

The problem is that the load goes up after a few days, and it´s between 4 and 10(!). The only thing i could find in the logs comes here:

Code:
Dec  1 09:03:08 PVE01 kernel: [   44.659864] kvm [1228]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d
Dec  1 09:03:08 PVE01 kernel: [   44.659984] kvm [1228]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0010112
Dec  1 09:03:09 PVE01 kernel: [   44.828058] kvm [1228]: vcpu1 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d
Dec  1 09:03:09 PVE01 kernel: [   44.840424] kvm [1228]: vcpu2 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d
Dec  1 09:03:09 PVE01 kernel: [   44.856567] kvm [1228]: vcpu3 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d

Rebooting gives me also an error and the server hangs during the reboot with the following message:

Code:
reached target Shutdown.
hpwdt: Unexpected close, not stopping watchdog

After this message nothing happens, so i have to kill the power switch.

The strangest thing about this at all is, that it happens randomly for me and i have sadly no idea where to search for the problem.

Hopefully you guys can help.

Thanks!

Edit:
Could this be caused by a temporally gone NFS share? I have a share which is not always available and i have found this topic about the problem:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5046-Error-kvm-cpu0-unhandled-wrmsr-amp-unhandled-rdmsr


Edit2:
Here comes the cpu installed
Code:
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 65
model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0x62
cpu MHz         : 2600.000
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch vmmcall
bugs            : apic_c1e fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs
bogomips        : 5200.17
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
 
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Hi
There can be 100s of different causes for a high load.
Note that if you have for instance 8 cores, having a load of 8 is no problem by itself, it justs means that the host is fully used.
What are the most active process on your system ? ( ie first 15 lines of top )
 
Hello together,
i have a quite huge problem with a extremely high load on a Proxmox 4 server and i don´t know where this comes from.

The problem is that the load goes up after a few days, and it´s between 4 and 10(!). The only thing i could find in the logs comes here:

Code:
Dec  1 09:03:08 PVE01 kernel: [   44.659864] kvm [1228]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d
Dec  1 09:03:08 PVE01 kernel: [   44.659984] kvm [1228]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0010112
Dec  1 09:03:09 PVE01 kernel: [   44.828058] kvm [1228]: vcpu1 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d
Dec  1 09:03:09 PVE01 kernel: [   44.840424] kvm [1228]: vcpu2 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d
Dec  1 09:03:09 PVE01 kernel: [   44.856567] kvm [1228]: vcpu3 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d

Rebooting gives me also an error and the server hangs during the reboot with the following message:

Code:
reached target Shutdown.
hpwdt: Unexpected close, not stopping watchdog

After this message nothing happens, so i have to kill the power switch.

The strangest thing about this at all is, that it happens randomly for me and i have sadly no idea where to search for the problem.

Hopefully you guys can help.

Thanks!

Edit:
Could this be caused by a temporally gone NFS share? I have a share which is not always available and i have found this topic about the problem:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5046-Error-kvm-cpu0-unhandled-wrmsr-amp-unhandled-rdmsr


Edit2:
Here comes the cpu installed
Code:
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 65
model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0x62
cpu MHz         : 2600.000
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch vmmcall
bugs            : apic_c1e fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs
bogomips        : 5200.17
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

The vcpu messages are definitely not the issue. Can you provide more information. When the load is high. What does wait on IO look like?
 
Well it´s fine right now for the last couple of days. I will report as soon as it happens again.

But you know it´s quite difficult to locate such a rare problem.

Thanks in advance!
 
"Reached target shutdown" is really a big issue for me too. I tried to install proxmox several times on different hardware, using EFI or BIOS. Most of the time neither reboot nor shutdown work: The server hangs with "Reached target shutdown" and I have to use the power button manually.
 

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