Re: qemu-kvm-0.13.0 - winsows 2008 - chkdisk too slow

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 01/06/2011 11:27 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 11:20 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
>> Hello Avi!
>> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:08:32AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> >  Let's start with a few 'kvm_stat -1' snapshots while this is going 
>> on.
>>
>> here it is, but note that there are few more machines running on this 
>> host.
>> but they're almost idle in contrast to this windows one, so I hope 
>> it's not problem.
>
>> kvm_cr                       780       772
>> kvm_emulate_insn           46181     44982
>> kvm_entry                  55012     53867
>> kvm_exit                   55182     53884
>
> It's emulating quite a bit.  Let's see why.
>
> - install udis86 and udis86-devel
> - build and install 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git
> - run trace-cmd record -e kvm -b 100000 -P pid1 -P pid2, ctrl-C after 
> a few seconds (pid1/pid2 are thread ids from 'info cpus' of the bad 
> guest, plus the pid of the qemu process itself)
> - post the resulting trace.dat somewhere
>

btw, that 100000 is 400MB of nonswappable kernel memory per cpu, so if 
you have lots of cpus and not enough memory, adjust it down.

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