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From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Harald Dunkel <harri@darkharri.de>,
	KVM Mailing List <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:54:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9E3C05.9090808@aixigo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9B52B4.9040505@redhat.com>

On 03/13/10 09:54, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> If the slowdown is indeed due to I/O, LVM (with cache=off) should
> eliminate it completely.
> 
As promised I have installed LVM: The difference is remarkable.
My test case (running 8 vhosts in parallel, each building a Linux
kernel) just works. There is no blocking job (by now), all
vhosts can be pinged, great.

Many thanx for your help, and for the nice software, of course.


Regards

Harri

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 15:20 how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm? Harald Dunkel
2010-03-08 11:02 ` 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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-23  8:47 Alec Istomin

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