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From: Harald Dunkel <harri@darkharri.de>
To: KVM Mailing List <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm?
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:20:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B912156.5020707@darkharri.de> (raw)

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Hi folks,

Problem: My kvm server (8 cores, 64 GByte RAM, amd64) can eat up
all block device or file system performance, so that the kvm clients
become almost unresponsive. This is _very_ bad. I would like to make
sure that the kvm clients do not affect each other, and that all
(including the server itself) get a fair part of computing power and
memory space.

What config options would you suggest to build and run a Linux
kernel optimized for running kvm clients?

Sorry for asking, but AFAICS some general guidelines for kvm are
missing here. Of course I saw a lot of options in Documentation/\
kernel-parameters.txt, but unfortunately I am not a kernel hacker.

Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated.


Regards

Harri
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 15:20 Harald Dunkel [this message]
2010-03-08 11:02 ` how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm? Avi Kivity
     [not found]   ` <4B979776.1000701@aixigo.de>
2010-03-10 13:15     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-10 15:57       ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2010-03-10 16:00         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-11 13:24       ` Harald Dunkel
2010-03-13  8:54         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-15 13:54           ` Harald Dunkel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-23  8:47 Alec Istomin

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