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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Dmitry Golubev <lastguru@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM with hugepages generate huge load with two guests
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:03:45 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA6E761.2010900@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimCE8-jErGX1TK2aYpeP_8a1dcsoFC1E4xS+n3m@mail.gmail.com>

02.10.2010 03:50, Dmitry Golubev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reply. Well, although there is plenty of RAM left (about
> 100MB), some swap space was used during the operation:
> 
> Mem:   8193472k total,  8089788k used,   103684k free,     5768k buffers
> Swap: 11716412k total,    36636k used, 11679776k free,   103112k cached

If you want to see swapping, run vmstat with, say, 5-second interval:
 $ vmstat 5

Amount of swap used is interesting, but amount of swapins/swapouts
per secound is much more so.

JFYI.

/mjt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-02  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30  9:07 KVM with hugepages generate huge load with two guests Dmitry Golubev
2010-10-01 22:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-01 23:50   ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-10-02  0:56     ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-10-02  8:03     ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTinJDLoWjiXwX1MOpuVf4RUuGE3qjrawS=d+5Swu@mail.gmail.com>
2010-11-17  2:19     ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-11-18  6:53       ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-11-21  0:24         ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-11-21  8:50           ` Michael Tokarev
2010-11-21 11:22             ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-11-21 11:28           ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-21 15:03             ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-12-01  3:38               ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-12-14  7:26                 ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-10-03  9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-03 20:24   ` Dmitry Golubev
2010-10-04  7:39     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04  9:01       ` Dmitry Golubev

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