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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Kurt Yoder <ktykvm@yoderhome.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO on guest is 20 times slower than host
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:35:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CA5D53.1080401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC00930-1EBB-4704-94CF-29478D07F03A@yoderhome.com>

Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>
>> I get 141 MB/s on the same test (it only copies to memory anyway).  
>> Is your VM under memory pressure?
>
> I don't think so. The host has 128 GB of memory, and even the 
> pre-emptive kernel caching doesn't come close to filling it:
>
> me@host:~$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:     132043960    1742480  130301480          0      84628     826040
> -/+ buffers/cache:     831812  131212148
> Swap:      1048568          0    1048568
>
> My /tmp should be physical disk in both cases. To be thorough, I also 
> ran the test while writing the output file to /, and got the same 
> results (5.7 MB/s on guest, 144 MB/s on host).

Your guest is only assigned 256MB though.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 15:23 IO on guest is 20 times slower than host Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 16:28   ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 16:35     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-03-25 16:51       ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 16:54         ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 17:11           ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-25 17:55             ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 18:51               ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-26 10:16                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-27 13:53                   ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-27 14:03                     ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-27 14:10                       ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-29 14:29                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 19:10                           ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-31  9:59                             ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-31 10:02                               ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-04 11:47                               ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-30 19:39                           ` Kurt Yoder
2009-03-31 15:15                             ` Kurt Yoder

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