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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM got slow after adding more physical memory to host
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:01:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6651FB.3050208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110906163029.GC2152@nik-comp.lan>

On 09/06/2011 07:30 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> OK, seems like Avi's right, at least the windows guest is not using DMA
> though the question is, why did it got disabled

It can happen due to a timeout, perhaps a temporary load spike.

> and how can I reenable it,

Google knows.

> I'm not experienced that much with XP :(
>
>
> >  It is rep/in-out. But why it became noticeable only after adding more
> >  physical memory to the host is a mystery.
>
> now that I'm thinking about it, we had similar problem in the past, the windows guest
> was unusably slow, and the whole host was slow as well... upgrading to 0.14.1 seemingly
> solved this issue, but maybe the DMA just got randomly enabled, and now after adding
> the memory (and restarting of course), it just got disabled again?
> but why could this be??
>

I don't think it's related to the memory.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-06 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-06 14:02 KVM got slow after adding more physical memory to host Nikola Ciprich
2011-09-06 15:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 15:38   ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-09-06 15:45     ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 16:01       ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-09-06 16:06         ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 16:06           ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 16:10           ` Gleb Natapov
2011-09-06 16:30             ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-09-06 17:01               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-09-06 19:22                 ` KVM got slow after adding more physical memory to host - SOLVED Nikola Ciprich
2011-09-08 14:58                   ` Michael Tokarev
2011-09-06 16:08     ` KVM got slow after adding more physical memory to host Avi Kivity

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