Stopping a Heavily-Loaded Domain Can Time Out

An ldm stop-domain command can time out before the domain completes shutting down. When this happens, an error similar to the following is returned by the Logical Domains Manager.

LDom ldg8 stop notification failed

However, the domain could still be processing the shutdown request. Use the ldm list-domain command to verify the status of the domain. For example:

# ldm list-domain ldg8
NAME         STATE   FLAGS  CONS   VCPU MEMORY  UTIL UPTIME
ldg8         active  s----  5000   22   3328M   0.3% 1d 14h 31m

The preceding list shows the domain as active, but the s flag indicates that the domain is in the process of stopping. This should be a transitory state.

The following example shows the domain has now stopped.

# ldm list-domain ldg8
NAME         STATE   FLAGS  CONS   VCPU MEMORY  UTIL UPTIME
ldg8         bound   -----  5000   22   3328M