Comment 6 for bug 1526544

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Alexei Sheplyakov (asheplyakov) wrote : Re: Systest failed with URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 113] No route to host>

@Timur,

tl;dr: the machine running the tests is overloaded, please buy more RAM.

> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20151012_155810-obs-1 04/01/2014

The host powering the VMs got overloaded, and its kernel have been heavily swapping.
As a result the qemu process got blocked for a very long time. This looks like an Ethernet
card lockup from the point of the view of the guest kernel.

Possible solutions:

1) Add more RAM to the host,
2) Use SSD for the host OS and swap partition (logical volume),
3) Use a different hard drive to store VMs images, so intensive guests IO does not interfere with host IO (in particular paging/swapping),
4) Restrict the load on the host