From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Blaber Subject: Re: Bad Performance Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:06:50 -0500 Message-ID: <474DCA5A.9040200@gmail.com> References: <474D8F83.3010303@gmail.com> <474D9435.3040608@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <474D9435.3040608-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > Darren Blaber wrote: >> Hello, I was wondering if any of you were able to to help me figure out >> why I am getting poor performance with kvm. When running windows as a >> guest os, when windows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses >> about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am doing any kind of activity (especially >> disk activity) its shoots right up to 99%. Anyway, have a readprofile >> snap shot as well as kvm stat output. >> >> 7383 hpet_rtc_timer_init 35.4952 >> 2360 sys_timer_gettime 18.4375 >> > > This is suspiciously high. Anything about hpet in dmesg? Can you try > a .config without hpet? > > This is the information in dmes: dmb@alpha:~$ dmesg|grep hpet [ 7.533397] hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0 [ 7.533401] hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz [ 0.752000] Time: hpet clocksource has been installed. [ 1.768000] hpet_resources: 0xfed00000 is busy dmb@alpha:~$ dmesg|grep HPET [ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET 7FED4F00, 0038 (r1 DELL M07 1 ASL 61) [ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000 I will try a .config without hpet soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4