[Fedora-xen] rhel5 hvm constantly crashes.

[Chris Lalancette]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> The rhel5 VM crashes (goes into 100% cpu usage, and becomes non
> responsive) every few hours. I get the impression it might be
> related to disk I/O, since it has also crashed doing things like
> downloading the giant openoffice-core update rpm.
> 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234160

Unfortunately RHEL-5 is having problems fully virtualized.  I think it 
has something to do with memory pressure and mmap(), but I'm not 100% 
sure.  I've found that if you increase the memory available to the 
virtual machine, it happens far less often.

Chris Lalancette