From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Alfred Bratterud <Alfred.Bratterud@hioa.no>
Cc: "libvirt-users@redhat.com" <libvirt-users@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Kernel unresponsive after booting 700+ vm's on a single host
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:42:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <504E2677.9070006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <827B80946D30E94D88703E3075B6FE7E13E5615D@ExMbx-02.ada.hioa.no>
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On 09/10/2012 07:51 AM, Alfred Bratterud wrote:
> For a research project we are trying to boot a very large amount of tiny, custom built VM's on KVM/ubuntu. The maximum VM-count achieved was 1000, but with substantial slowness, and eventually kernel failure, while the cpu/memory loads were nowhere near limits. Where is the likely bottleneck? Any solutions, workarounds, hacks or dirty tricks?
Are you using cgroups? There have been some known bottlenecks in the
kernel cgroup code, where it scales very miserably; and since libvirt
uses a different cgroup per VM by default when cgroups are enabled, that
might explain part of the problem.
Other than that, if you can profile the slowdowns, I'm sure people would
be interested in the results.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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2012-09-10 13:51 Kernel unresponsive after booting 700+ vm's on a single host Alfred Bratterud
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