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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How many threads should a kvm vm be starting?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:33:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E816E27.8040005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109261829.38937.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>

On 09/27/2011 03:29 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> I just noticed something interesting, a virtual machine on one of my servers
> seems to have 69 threads (including the main thread). Other guests on the
> machine only have a couple threads.
>
> Is this normal? or has something gone horribly wrong?
>

It's normal if the guest does a lot of I/O.  The thread count should go 
down when the guest idles.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27  0:29 How many threads should a kvm vm be starting? Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-27  6:33 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-09-27 22:04   ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-28  7:41     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-09-28  7:55       ` Thomas Fjellstrom

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