From: Banyan He <banyan@rootong.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Holway <a.holway@syseleven.de>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM on NFS
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:17:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508160F8.1000700@rootong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507E8C90.2080708@redhat.com>
MySQl might not run good locally on the disk in the VM. It is actually
not a good idea to run it on nfs filesystem. The startup should not be a
problem. Once the data grows up, it will become the problem to you. Try
to cache as much as possible that would be helping you out from lots of
problems.
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Banyan He
Blog: http://www.rootong.com
Email: banyan@rootong.com
On 2012-10-17 6:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 11:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am testing KVM on an Oracle NFS box that I have.
>>
>> Does the list have any advice on best practice? I remember reading that there is stuff you can do with I/O schedulers and stuff to make it more efficient.
>>
>> My VMs will primarily be running mysql databases. I am currently using o_direct.
>>
> O_DIRECT is good. I/O schedulers don't affect NFS so no need to tune
> anything on the host. You might experiment with switching to the
> deadline scheduler in the guest.
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-19 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 9:20 KVM on NFS Andrew Holway
2012-10-17 10:46 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-17 11:04 ` Andrew Holway
2012-10-17 11:15 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-19 14:17 ` Banyan He [this message]
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