RE: XP guests sluggish after around 1 week of uptime

["jmandawg" <jmandawg@hotmail.com>]

The guest is not acting up right now since I just rebooted the host on
Sunday.  
Here is the current outputs of the command, and I will post them again when
they start acting up:

[root@e6400:~/ 500]$vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id
wa
 1  0    212  95816 992968 1775292    0    0   464   280   61   28 45  6 46
2
 0  0    212  95608 992968 1775312    0    0     0   120   98 8179  8  8 84
0
 0  0    212  95592 992968 1775312    0    0     0     0   18 8099  7  8 86
0
 1  0    212  95716 992968 1775312    0    0     0     0   42 8626  4  7 89
0
 1  0    212  95716 992968 1775312    0    0     0    56   56 8034  7 11 82
0
 0  0    212  95716 992968 1775312    0    0     8    36   59 8317  7  6 86
1
 1  0    212  95660 992968 1775324    0    0     0    84   61 8203 11 11 78
0
 0  0    212  95304 992968 1775324    0    0     0    48   65 8003  8  7 85
0
 1  0    212  95264 992968 1775324    0    0     0     0   13 7704 15  7 78
0
 0  0    212  95264 992968 1775324    0    0     0    80   97 8018 15  5 80
0
 2  0    212  95468 992968 1775324    0    0     0    16   35 7891  9  8 83
0
 3  0    212  95380 992968 1775324    0    0     0   124  103 8179  9  8 81
1
 0  0    212  95380 992968 1775324    0    0     0    40   48 8006 11  8 80
1
 0  0    212  95336 992972 1775320    0    0     0   116  104 8285  9  5 85
1
 0  0    212  95356 992976 1775320    0    0     0   312  173 8421  7 11 79
3
 1  0    212  95380 992976 1775324    0    0     0     0   42 8233  5  9 87
0
 0  0    212  95460 992976 1775324    0    0     0    72   48 8188  7 11 82
0
 1  0    212  95380 992976 1775324    0    0     0     0   39 8221  8  8 84
0
 0  0    212  95468 992976 1775324    0    0     0     0   17 7982 10  6 83
0
 0  0    212  95460 992976 1775324    0    0     0   100  100 8421  7  6 85
2
 1  0    212  95380 992976 1775324    0    0     0    32   35 8000  8  7 85
0


kvm statistics

 efer_reload                 15       0
 exits               3315693540   22034
 fpu_reload           174984854     724
 halt_exits           216355599    1503
 halt_wakeup           55495383     341
 host_state_reload    867498430    4631
 hypercalls                   0       0
 insn_emulation        56483585     491
 insn_emulation_fail       1025       0
 invlpg                 7980288       5
 io_exits            1796250843   11377
 irq_exits             85442292     224
 irq_injections       250928733    1661
 irq_window             9135944      52
 kvm_request_irq              0       0
 largepages                   0       0
 mmio_exits            28133579     310
 mmu_cache_miss         1041626       0
 mmu_flooded             426300       0
 mmu_pde_zapped          704522       0
 mmu_pte_updated        2702458       0
 mmu_pte_write          3546140       0
 mmu_recycled             16553       0
 mmu_shadow_zapped      1245678       0
 mmu_unsync               11192      -1
 nmi_injections               0       0
 nmi_window                   0       0
 pf_fixed              65801856      54
 pf_guest              22111366       5
 remote_tlb_flush           235       0
 request_nmi                  0       0
 signal_exits                 5       0
 tlb_flush            850332604    6382

-----Original Message-----
From: Avi Kivity [mailto:avi@redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:29 AM
To: Jay
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XP guests sluggish after around 1 week of uptime

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Jay wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
>   
>> How much memory do you have on the host?  Is the host swapping?  Can you 
>> post 'vmstat 1' output while Windows is opening the start menu?
>>
>>     
>
> I have 8GB RAM on the host, and i've run htop and the swap space is not
being
> used at all.  I have a total of 4 guest (2 windows + 2 linux)
>
> I will have to try the 'vmstat 1' command tonight when i get home from
work.

Provide kvm_stat output as well.

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