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From: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: Windows slow boot: contractor wanted
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:51:35 +0100
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Richard Davies wrote:
> > The host in question has 128GB RAM and dual AMD Opteron 6128 (16 cores
> > total). It is running kernel 3.5.1 and qemu-kvm 1.1.1.
> >
> > In this morning's test, we have 3 guests, all booting Windows with 40GB RAM
> > and 8 cores each (we have seen small VMs go slow as I originally said, but
> > it is easier to trigger with big VMs):
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> 40+40+40=120, pretty close to your server specs. Are you swapping?

No - you can see on the "top" screenshot that there's no swap in use.

Richard.

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Richard Davies wrote:
> > The host in question has 128GB RAM and dual AMD Opteron 6128 (16 cores
> > total). It is running kernel 3.5.1 and qemu-kvm 1.1.1.
> >
> > In this morning's test, we have 3 guests, all booting Windows with 40GB RAM
> > and 8 cores each (we have seen small VMs go slow as I originally said, but
> > it is easier to trigger with big VMs):
>
> 40+40+40=120, pretty close to your server specs. Are you swapping?

No - you can see on the "top" screenshot that there's no swap in use.

Richard.