From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Poor Write I/O Performance on KVM-79 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <66c93b820901032203yc735b1g48d5bf19deffbfc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43182 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754509AbZAEOfE (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:35:04 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LJqXn-0007h0-14 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:35:03 +0000 Received: from 77-58-232-244.dclient.hispeed.ch ([77.58.232.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:35:03 +0000 Received: from thomas by 77-58-232-244.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:35:03 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> > if you use qcow2 image with kvm-79 you have to use cache=writeback > parameter to get some speed. ok, not writeback but cache=writethrough ... -Thomas