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From: Alec Istomin <alec@openvz.org>
To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vCPU scalability for linux VMs
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:31:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085378510.20100505123111@istomin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100505172739.GB23892@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


On Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 13:27:39 -0400, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
>>  My preliminary results show that single vCPU Linux VMs perform up to 10
>>  times better than 4vCPU Linux VMs (consolidated performance of 8 VMs on
>>  8 core pre-Nehalem server). I suspect that I'm missing something major
>>  and look for any means that can help improve SMP VMs performance.

> Could you provide more details of what workload was used to compare this
> performance?

It's Dell's DVD-Store LAMP stack test suite with Medium database (about
1 GB MySQL data) . 8x 2Gb VMs (on 16GB RAM host) with different vCPU
configuration simultaneously loaded by external web clients.

Regards,
 Alec


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  1:45 vCPU scalability for linux VMs Alec Istomin
2010-05-05  8:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 16:56   ` Alec Istomin
     [not found] ` <AANLkTinDKDV3vwLiZzmMC6C4cjOnXT1H-joJ4rcR3vgA@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-05 17:27   ` Fwd: " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-05-05 19:31     ` Alec Istomin [this message]
2010-05-06  5:53       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-05-06  7:58         ` Alec Istomin

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