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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Richard Davies <richard.davies@elastichosts.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:53:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5034F24D.1090105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120822144150.GA1400@alpha.arachsys.com>

On 08/22/2012 05:41 PM, Richard Davies wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Richard Davies wrote:
>> > I can trigger the slow boots without KSM and they have the same profile,
>> > with _raw_spin_lock_irqsave and isolate_freepages_block at the top.
>> >
>> > I reduced to 3x 20GB 8-core VMs on a 128GB host (rather than 3x 40GB 8-core
>> > VMs), and haven't managed to get a really slow boot yet (>5 minutes). I'll
>> > post agan when I get one.
>>
>> I think you can go higher than that.  But 120GB on a 128GB host is
>> pushing it.
> 
> I've now triggered a very slow boot at 3x 36GB 8-core VMs on a 128GB host
> (i.e. 108GB on a 128GB host).
> 
> It has the same profile with _raw_spin_lock_irqsave and
> isolate_freepages_block at the top.

Then it's still memory starved.

Please provide /proc/zoneinfo while this is happening.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-22 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16 10:47 [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted Richard Davies
2012-08-16 11:39 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-17 12:36   ` Richard Davies
2012-08-17 13:02     ` Robert Vineyard
2012-08-18 14:44       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-19  5:02     ` Brian Jackson
2012-08-20  8:16       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-19  8:40     ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-19  8:51       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-19 14:04     ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-20 13:56       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-21  9:00         ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-21 15:21           ` Richard Davies
2012-08-21 15:39             ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-08-22  9:08             ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 12:40               ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 12:44                 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 14:41                   ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 14:53                     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-22 15:26                       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 17:22                       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-08-25 17:51                         ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 15:21                     ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-22 15:34                       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-25 17:45                       ` Richard Davies
2012-08-25 18:11                         ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-26 10:58                           ` Richard Davies
2012-09-06  9:20                             ` Richard Davies
2012-09-12 10:56                               ` [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot Richard Davies
2012-09-12 12:25                                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-12 16:46                                   ` Richard Davies
2012-09-13  9:50                                     ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 19:47                                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mm: have order > 0 compaction start near a pageblock with free pages" Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:48                                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:54                                       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 " Rik van Riel
2012-09-15 15:55                                         ` Richard Davies
2012-09-16 19:12                                           ` Richard Davies
2012-09-17 12:26                                           ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-18  8:14                                             ` Richard Davies
2012-09-18 11:21                                               ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-18 17:58                                                 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-17 13:50                                           ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-17 14:07                                             ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-16 14:10 ` [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted Benoît Canet
2012-08-16 15:53 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-09-18 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot Michael Tokarev

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