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Oracle Cloud VM (free tier) unstable for anyone?

davidedavide Member
edited May 2024 in Outages

This is an ARM Oracle Cloud VM, free tier, in US East.

I had it running since 2022, but as of this week once a day or so it becomes unreachable and needs a reboot from the web console. Issuing ACPI signals for power off and reboot over the web console is inconsequential, the VM needs a hardware reset to resume working. It has plenty of free memory before and at the time of each crash, I don't suspect OOM. All 4 CPUs are busy all the time, maybe it gets suspended because of it? The web console merely reports that "the VM is unresponsive" and blames it on me for misconfiguration. No general service disruptions are reported for the region either.

Anyone with the same issue?

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  • LeviLevi Member

    Stable as a rock. Running almost 2 years without any downtime. Europe region. Incredible gem.

    Thanked by 1dragon1993
  • Same here. no issues since past 1.5 years.

  • seokyseoky Member

    No issue for last 180 days, but got reboot half year ago due to some interal issue said Oracle

  • davidedavide Member

    For those running the ARM instance, what is your output of uname -r?

    Mine is 6.5.0-1021-oracle, and I installed it ... last week, when these problem began to appear. I may have found the culprit.

  • lirrrlirrr Member

    1 year, solid

  • @davide said:
    For those running the ARM instance, what is your output of uname -r?

    Mine is 6.5.0-1021-oracle, and I installed it ... last week, when these problem began to appear. I may have found the culprit.

    Mine is also 6.5.0-1021-oracle. No issues to report.

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  • HakimHakim Member

    @davide said: the VM needs a hardware reset to resume working

    You mean Reboot from OCI console? If not try rebooting from OCI console. You may end up in a different physical node which could fix your issue.

  • Extremely stable here, more so than ‘prem’ LET providers

    In fact other than bandwidth it’s actually quite well priced beyond free tier

  • eu region, no problems with my 2 vm's. very stable (running Debian)

  • CrabCrab Member
    edited May 2024

    West coast has been also extremely stable for almost two years now. It has been so good that it (almost) makes me want to pay for the service. Using Oracle Linux 8 on two instances.

  • davidedavide Member
    edited May 2024

    @DanSummer said:
    Mine is also 6.5.0-1021-oracle. No issues to report.

    Now I installed the kernel 6.5.0-1021-oracle-64k, replacing 6.5.0-1021-oracle. I have no clue how the two differ, I'll check Oracle's documentation next time it crashes, if it crashes.

    The only other modification I made to the VM last week was to install linux-tools-6.5.0-1021-oracle, and before that I hadn't su in months, so I think one of these two packages is responsible.

  • CrabCrab Member

    Correction to what I said earlier, using OL9 with 5.15.0-105.125.6.2.2.el9uek.aarch64.

  • NanoG6NanoG6 Member

    Yes I also had the same issue yesterday in Seoul, need to force reboot from console. It's Debian 6.1.0-18-amd64

  • kvz12kvz12 Member
    edited May 2024

    No issues in Singapore, ARM and x86 are on the most recent kernel that they provide. It's actually been really impressive how stable they have been.

  • My arm64 is 5.15.0-1055-oracle, a Ubuntu 20.04.6. Seems to run just fine in Tokyo.

    Thanked by 1davide
  • UchihaUchiha Member

    they never accept my cards

  • @Uchiha said:
    they never accept my cards

    Mine too!

  • @Uchiha said:
    they never accept my cards

    Try in a browser without any add ons! Any!

  • faleddofaleddo Member

    Very stable. I divide arm free tier to 2 VMs for hosting zabbix & cloudpanel.

  • UchihaUchiha Member

    @niranjan said: Try in a browser without any add ons! Any!

    I tried with at least 10 cards (debit/credit) and also copied and pasted the address properly, but it never worked. I'll try again without any add-ons

  • Oracle vps for free how many years?thus it need Cc?

  • @Uchiha said:

    @niranjan said: Try in a browser without any add ons! Any!

    I tried with at least 10 cards (debit/credit) and also copied and pasted the address properly, but it never worked. I'll try again without any add-ons

    It was same for me, but when I tried without any add on's it shows some different error

  • ShamliShamli Member

    @Uchiha said:

    @niranjan said: Try in a browser without any add ons! Any!

    I tried with at least 10 cards (debit/credit) and also copied and pasted the address properly, but it never worked. I'll try again without any add-ons

    I tried with about rm600(+- $150) in balance in my debit card with overseas transaction enabled,and it is successfull....last month upgraded the account to paid account....

  • davidedavide Member
    edited May 2024

    The instance crashed again today, I terminated it intending to recreate it with a new boot volume from a fresh OS image, and... now I can't recreate any VM shape at all! All availability zones for all shapes/architectures are "out of capacity" for me.

    :'(

    Larry, it was great until it lasted.

  • varwwwvarwww Member

    I wish there was a reinstall option. I want to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04 but I am worried I ll lose my free instance

  • pedalapedala Member

    @Uchiha said:
    they never accept my cards

    Not all cards work; you withdraw the account statement and put the address exactly as it appears in the statement. Some cards work... Mine worked, and suddenly I found it deleted without any message, warning, etc.

  • I stopped using oracle few months ago :) they work fine for a while and then they suddenly start to lag or crash and idk many weird stuff .I shifted all my sites to paid VPS now so no more headache.

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad

    @davide

    root:~# pro status
    SERVICE          ENTITLED  STATUS       DESCRIPTION
    anbox-cloud      yes       disabled     Scalable Android in the cloud
    esm-apps         yes       enabled      Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications
    esm-infra        yes       enabled      Expanded Security Maintenance for Infrastructure
    landscape        yes       disabled     Management and administration tool for Ubuntu
    livepatch        yes       enabled      Canonical Livepatch service
    
    For a list of all Ubuntu Pro services, run 'pro status --all'
    Enable services with: pro enable <service>
    
         Account: xxx
    Subscription: Ubuntu Pro - free personal subscription
    
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  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad

    Maybe try using Ubuntu?

  • nfnnfn Veteran

    @davide said:
    ... now I can't recreate any VM shape at all! All availability zones for all shapes/architectures are "out of capacity" for me.

    :'(

    Larry, it was great until it lasted.

    Upgrade to PAYG and you're fine!
    Just stay bellow the limit for the free tier and you're god to go!

    Thanked by 1dragon1993
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