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 ) id 1NqDUO-0007qr-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:37:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A49BE082B; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495F6E082B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so632051gyg.40 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:37:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=4DrIKLt9+cfB01VHfI3lKnbbFEgfoiPuGJ40czGnHCY=; b=eMmfYY2PHqSoeH5pTxnKy3IOG9QndqE9+Xd6wFtjGVkaLDHBpYAUmA9kMKownuBqvR yZ0JBgU5MN+U9MUVlYvs90ft5jzKX7i+IoT9WPQV91TE3MBLzY08Bz0ZLVBpZl9bNT65 rU75Z25U3fayjWfFBVlPw8HFY+hHHsyMW1oXI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=llTMw6QfYaPMXuS8y1Lyf/MtMOjlePJwgOwnFItVFbFfbxN6/sVz24FIr+aHsB6JFo uJHBFL/yQY8KFH93HNFbvP+ffVcmquLx3NDNuhY7aGq7OXyH1HWMjV06zvCetGSpsPcQ 5Uz5ER5a4rXlTaE7Bl2Z5ypBnHfAfiZsncANI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.49.23 with SMTP id w23mr2009497anw.227.1268433440485; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:37:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B99EBCC.80709@xunil.at> References: <4B97F76B.1080303@xunil.at> <854dca5c1003110754l263ebb17gfdc694b029902f24@mail.gmail.com> <4B99EBCC.80709@xunil.at> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:37:20 -0800 Message-ID: <854dca5c1003121437v2cb5a244pca11d7c8bebd428c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance From: Kyle Bader To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: fe521a18-c694-4dcd-bff9-8cefd64a30e5 X-Archives-Hash: 4c1613b80d45fe552e3bf143762920b8 If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop. Also look for D state procs with ps auxr. Are you on a software raid? 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 is something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host. If the host system is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the former (host controller or mdadm). On 3/11/10, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader: >> If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off >> low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): >> >> Echo 0 > /sys/class/block//queue/iosched/low_latency >> >> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 > > That sounded good, but unfortunately it is not really doing the trick. > The VM still takes minutes to boot ... and this after I copied it back > to the RAID1-array which should in theory be faster than the > noraid-partition before. > > Thanks anyway, I will test that setting ... > > Stefan > > > -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle