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.
next prev parent 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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