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From: Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>
To: Alex Rixhardson <alexrixhardson@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RHEL 4.5 guest virtual network performace
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:49:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C699645.70209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinsjDc_+jPMWc-sVeE9SPgi_POf92KcdYYs_F8N@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/16/2010 10:00 PM, Alex Rixhardson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have the following configuration:
>
> 1. host is RHEL 5.5, 64bit with KVM (version that comes out of the box
> with RHEL 5.5)
> 2. two guests:
> 2a: RHEL 5.5, 32bit,
> 2b: RHEL 4.5, 64bit
>
> If I run iperf between host RHEL 5.5 and guest RHEL 5.5 inside the
> virtual network subnet I get great results (>  4Gbit/sec). But if I run
> iperf between guest RHEL 4.5 and either of the two RHELs 5.5 I get bad
> network performance (around 140Mbit/sec).

Please try netperf, iperf known to be buggy and might consume cpu w/o 
real justification

>
> The configuration was made thru virtual-manager utility, nothing
> special. I just added virtual network device to both guests.
>
> Could you guys give me some tips on what should I check?
>
> Regards,
> Alex
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16 19:00 RHEL 4.5 guest virtual network performace Alex Rixhardson
2010-08-16 19:49 ` Dor Laor [this message]
2010-08-16 21:22   ` Alex Rixhardson
2010-08-16 21:35     ` Dor Laor
2010-08-16 21:51       ` Alex Rixhardson
2010-08-16 21:56         ` Dor Laor
2010-08-16 22:05           ` Alex Rixhardson
2010-08-16 23:09             ` Alex Rixhardson
2010-08-17  1:22               ` David S. Ahern

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