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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Poor network performance in domU in unstable
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:44:53 -0700
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Steven Hand wrote:
>>with unstable as of April 21st, I am getting fairly bad networking 
>>performance in my domUs, e.g 125Mbits/s TCP with iPerf over a gigabit 
>>link, where dom0 gets around 700Mbits/s.
> 
> 
> Is this vanilla Xen/XenLinux or have you any local changes?

This is the vanilla versions, except using vmtools instead of xend. I 
will try this with xend and report back to see if that helps anything.

 > Always worth upgrading to latest unstable in any case; binary chop
 > on csets can help narrow things down.

Yes, unfortunately the latest unstable crashes dom0 on domain creation 
(as described by me and others on the list), which is why I picked at 
random semi-recent version instead.

Jacob