Re: The neverending load increase....

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Carsten Schiers wrote:
> Hi Konrad,

Heya!
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> Yes me again, the guy with the double bounce buffering problem with the DVB card when using more than 
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> 4GB of RAM and PVOPS.
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> If you are still interested: gues what do you think what happened between 3rd and fourth on riker? Yes,
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> I switched to PVOPS ;o).
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> So, I am currently on Xen 4.1 with 3.6.7 PVOPS Kernel for Dom0 and riker. Before the increase, I was using
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> an old-style kernel, no other changes in Domain.
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> Compared to last time we checked on it, I switched mainboard, CPU (AMD->Intel), and now have 16GB. 
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> So just in case, we would like to check on it further, please feel free to advise or patch a kernel and I 
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> am more than happy to try out.

Did you try doing it in an PVHVM guest?

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> I use the PVOPS kernel now because of some glitches when recording and I want to test whether they persist
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> on PVOPS. I am going to switch to Xen 4.2 soon, because I want to modify the scheduler with the new parameters,

credit2 scheduler?
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> as I guess the Domain doesn’t get enough attention, there are 3 PCI cards for it…

Was it you who had IOMMU issues? Meaning the the AMD-VI would throw out errors when
the cards were doing IO?
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> If this is not interesting, please simply let me know, it’s not really an issue, it’s more for curiosity.

It is always interesting! Please do keep me abreast!
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> BR,
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> Carsten.
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