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From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de>
Subject: Re: how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:54:13 +0100
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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