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BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:08:52 GMT

Hi all! Please help me with a strange problem.So, I have two fresh install of alfresco 4.2.3.1 from bandle:The first one is on a real hw (ubuntu 14.4 x64)The second is: on a kvm VM (ubuntu 14.4 x64)So, my problem is about: I start alfresco via:service alfresco startAnd I see in catalina.out the foll

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

mrogers — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:05:00 GMT

If you have a valid license then please call Alfresco support.

If you are using the forums then please post further details such as your log files. And details of your system configuration.

However poor performance with a VM is probably due to insufficient resources either memory, cpu or disk. Contention from other VMs starving the alfresco VM. Or perhaps a poor network configuration.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:06:00 GMT

Dear, mrogers. We have a very special version of alfresco from a big vendor, and it has rather old version of alfresco 4.x + very old OS Linux. I want to try a new version of alfresco with new version of Linux in order to have a way for upgrade in future.

So, if I kill tomcat by: "killall java" , the next start alfresco on my VM is very fast…

It is a very strange…

I have a FRESH install of alfresco (just next,next,next) into my VM. My VM has: 4core of 3.2 GGz CPU + 10 GB of ECC RAM + 7200RPM hdd.

I'll glad for you help to me.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:12:40 GMT

Dear, mrogers:

INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor /opt/alfresco-4.2.3.1/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml
ноя 19, 2014 11:06:03 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
ноя 19, 2014 11:08:28 PM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator createSecureRandom
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It was about 150sec… There was no I/0, CPU, RAM in during this time.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:18:00 GMT

Dear mrogers, I have setup ubuntu 14.04 srv as a my OS (in KVM), I have the start of alfresco with 10mins. After change my os to CentOS 6.2, I don't have problem with it. I know about alfresco doesn't officially support of ubuntu 14.04, because of this I'll try to use ubuntu 12.04 srv.

I'll post my result here about it.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

mrogers — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:05:09 GMT

10G of ram should be enough.

Do you know which java process has caused problems? That might help narrow down the problem.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:28:51 GMT

There is no problem with RAM. I have tested it from 4G to 10G.

I don't know about the java process problem. I see two java process in during hung.

If you want I can show 'ps auxww|grep java' during hang.

When I use above 3.2 kernel I have this problem, when I use 3.2 kernel or below - there is no problem! Please REread my first post, I have edited them.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

linuxyeti — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:26:00 GMT

Hi there

I have to say, I doubt this is a problem with Alfresco, but more your KVM VM config

Areas for performance issues on KVM, can be traced to network and disk configuration

For the disk config :-

Set the Disk Bus as virtio and cache mode to none ( I also use RAW as format, but I don't think that affects performance particularly)

For the network card config, set the device model as virtio

You will almost certainly notice performance improvements.

Another thing to bear in mind, make sure you have enough RAM configured, and be wary of swap utilisation, as obviously that requires reading/writing to disk, and again, will slow you down.

Also, are the any other VM's running on your KVM host, and is their resource utilisation impacting on your VM for alfresco.

Finally, after all this, make sure you have tuned your Postgresql database try pgtune, as that provides a very good starting point, and double check your java runtime properties for alfresco.

Cheers

Tony

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:51:00 GMT

Hi! I agree with you point. I'm not shure about problem in alfresco. I think it's a problem of kvm/tomcat/kernel. So, for example: I just a user of alfrescoOne, I download latest alfresco bundle, pay a VM in a cloud, install ubuntu 12.04 (because it's fully official supported by alfresco) - after fresh install I wait about 10 mins every time for start alfresco - THAT IS BAD! Really bad. There is NO problem in KVM: RAM, virtio and so on. There ONLY problem in KVM+latest kernel + tomcat/alfresco.

I have tested it in 3 KVM env with the same result.

I have a plan to setup a virtual kernel from ubuntu repo.

Just for notice:



What are the differences between the server and virtual kernels?

The difference between the Virtual and Server kernels is that the Virtual kernel is intended to be utilized inside a virtual machine. The virtual kernel only includes the necessary drivers to run inside popular virtualization technologies such as KVM, Xen, and VMWare. The server kernel in contrast contains the necessary drivers to work with a wide range of hardware, and should be installed directly on host systems. Other than that, all other options are identical between the server and the virtual kernel. 
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If you have an interest about my result, I can post it in several days from now.

Best regards.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

linuxyeti — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:13:42 GMT

Hi

Sure, OK. Also, could you post the config of your VM, either the XML fileor list the settings.

Cheers

Tony

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:00:13 GMT

Yeah, I'll show my config to you, after 1 or 2 days from now. Just wite

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:12:00 GMT

Dear linuxyeti,

You can look at into my config:


<domain type='kvm'>
  <name>alfresco-test</name>
  <uuid>05dc0337-cb86-309a-8975-6c957f9cbbe6</uuid>
  <memory unit='KiB'>10485760</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>10485760</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-trusty'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
    <bootmenu enable='no'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <pae/>
  </features>
  <clock offset='utc'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
      <source file='/kvm2-master/alfresco-test.qcow2'/>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
      <readonly/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:d4:23:93'/>
      <source network='default'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <target port='0'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty'>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
    </console>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/>
    <video>
      <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
</domain>
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I have true to setup 3.16 kernel and also I have setup linux-virtual pkg without any success. If I downgrade my kernel to 3.2 it works fine.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

linuxyeti — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:35:03 GMT

Hi there

Your config looks pretty sound, theonly real differences between what I have set and what you have set are: -

For the emulator we use qemu-kvm as opposed to kvm-spice, I've read there are issues that surround kvm-spice, so if you can, go back to qemu-kvm and try that.

Also for the pci interface, we have configured bridging pci type 'bridge'

Cheers

Tony

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:24:59 GMT

Thank you for responce to me. It's a default settings comes from virt-manager. I'll switch to qemu-kvm and test it again.

I'm sorry but I didn't catch about pci interface. What did you mean? Did you mean network device pci bridge? There is no diff betwen bridge or NAT for my case. - Plese more explain what you mean.

Thank for you help.

Best regards,
Victor.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:56:53 GMT

Dear linuxyeti,

There is no real kvm-spice in Ubuntu host KVM system.

Example:


# ll /usr/bin/kvm-spice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 oct.   7 06:28 /usr/bin/kvm-spice -> kvm*
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And also there is no qemu-kvm:


# lsb_release -a ; echo '———-' ; find / -name qemu-kvm
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:   Ubuntu
Description:   Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:   14.04
Codename:   trusty
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/etc/default/qemu-kvm
/usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm
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I'll glad for any help.

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

linuxyeti — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:27:34 GMT

Hi

I use a bridged newtork interface to make the VM acessible to the whole network. So, what happens if you replace

<emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator>

with

<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>

It may also just be something particular to Ubuntu, we use Centos, althoughthat's probably unlikely.

Cheers

Tony

Re: BUG! AlfrescoOne 4.2.x hungs during startup in KVM

vgusev2007 — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:18:00 GMT

There is no /usr/bin/qemu-kvm in ubuntu linux. What kernel version do you use for alfresco in your VM?