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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: MPI benchmark performance gap between native linux
	and	domU
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:37:08 -0700
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xuehai zhang wrote:


> Experiment 1: I boot all 8 nodes with native linux (nosmp, kernel 
> 2.4.29) and use all

> Experiment 2: I boot all 8 nodes with Xen running and start a single 
> user domain
> (port 2.6.10,using file-backed VBD) on each node with 360MB memory. Then 


What do you get when you compare 2.4.29 native Linux
against 2.6.10 native Linux, without Xen involved at
all?

thanks,
Nivedita