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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:23:37
Message-Id: 4BD9CE79.5030306@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
2 > Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
3 >
4 >>> If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors
5 >>> with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is
6 >>> something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata
7 >>> controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host. If the host system
8 >>> is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the former
9 >>> (host controller or mdadm).
10 >>
11 >> The disks look good so far ...
12 >
13 > Just to bump this one up again ...
14 >
15 > Hard disks OK, ran long smart-tests, completely ok.
16 >
17 > Still that high io-load from kdmflush.
18
19 No change since then.
20
21 What do you guys use? RAID1, RAID0 ?? LVM? Specific filesystems?
22 I could also transfer it to another box using NFSv4 ... but that wasn't
23 much difference back then.
24
25 I would like to hear your thoughts, thanks, Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>