From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-110563-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1O7rPZ-00077h-1L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:41:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A826E06C0; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA20E06C0 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1919EE719; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:41:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=iGIXp3ToYoj6IFL1lTHRaF7RshU=; b=ko+ASfE/rBb6sDeFzroDVxdy7i23AR+Q1hM+IAb9WZ+nQCN+YsQOwToGt50toQ/fRl9BQ/K34sCkyyMzZPBC3lX484gHWkmZ02Db8zrYHR8sazahor/j4/G+WKE/6L3MOifDjFaZRuEjKvawE+dMgWS48TwqiP5WQC4K972zS9I= X-Sasl-enc: aVZfW4V9jTDddkfmTCk4e/Plx56msGTOIyw7V0GbGjQO 1272638477 Received: from [192.168.5.10] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39CB04D2A30 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BDAEC09.1070107@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:41:13 +0200 From: Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100313 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance References: <4B97F76B.1080303@xunil.at> <854dca5c1003110754l263ebb17gfdc694b029902f24@mail.gmail.com> <4B99EBCC.80709@xunil.at> <854dca5c1003121437v2cb5a244pca11d7c8bebd428c@mail.gmail.com> <4B9BD894.2000708@xunil.at> <4BA29843.6070001@xunil.at> <4BD9CE79.5030306@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4BD9CE79.5030306@xunil.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE95395744DEB99F3C9CC4EEA" X-Archives-Salt: 17279687-dc71-427d-bcfc-c2720772ff3d X-Archives-Hash: fbd0785ca30fbe51c4986702e97da1f4 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE95395744DEB99F3C9CC4EEA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 29.04.2010 20:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >>>> If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors >>>> with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of i= s >>>> something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata >>>> controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host. If the host syste= m >>>> is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the forme= r >>>> (host controller or mdadm). >>> >>> The disks look good so far ... >> >> Just to bump this one up again ... >> >> Hard disks OK, ran long smart-tests, completely ok. >> >> Still that high io-load from kdmflush. >=20 > No change since then. >=20 > What do you guys use? RAID1, RAID0 ?? LVM? Specific filesystems? > I could also transfer it to another box using NFSv4 ... but that wasn't= > much difference back then. >=20 > I would like to hear your thoughts, thanks, Stefan >=20 Hi! I just want to tell you that I experience similar problems with vmware-player. I'm currently on kernel 2.6.32. The guest system is a Ubuntu with an Oracle Express database (used for a database lecture I'm taking). The system feels like it swaps out the complete host system when I switch to the guest system and vice versa although there is plenty of free memory. It is so bad that the system becomes completely unusable for more than 15 minutes. I didn't investigate it yet because I don't really need that guest OS. Regards, Florian Philipp --------------enigE95395744DEB99F3C9CC4EEA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkva7A0ACgkQqs4uOUlOuU/MogCaAm5quxG1trjOn1tXfO3qVzzZ BscAnix3DN6oumX/xIcwmSq0g+ArnqsA =Oy5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE95395744DEB99F3C9CC4EEA--