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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Arne Kepp <ak@opengeo.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor write- and overall performance
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:38:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4945FB64.3040109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49459A51.7040905@opengeo.org>

Arne Kepp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm testing KVM 80 (prepackaged from lfarkas.org) on CentOS 5.2 (both 
> guest and host) and comparing against Xen 3.3.0. The only modification 
> I've really made is that I've set noatime on both guest and host. The 
> guest is running straight from an LVM volume and is assigned 4 Gb RAM 
> and 4 virtual CPUs.

I suggest trying scsi in kvm-81, or setting cache=writeback if you want 
to keep using IDE (but be aware of the potential for severe data loss 
with the latter option).

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-14 23:44 Poor write- and overall performance Arne Kepp
2008-12-15  6:38 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-12-15 10:22   ` Henrik Holst
2008-12-15 10:26     ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-15 10:29       ` Henrik Holst
2008-12-20  1:44   ` Arne Kepp
2008-12-20  5:19     ` Ryan Harper

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