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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:41:49
Message-Id: 4BDAEC09.1070107@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Am 29.04.2010 20:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
2 > Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
3 >> Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
4 >>
5 >>>> If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors
6 >>>> with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is
7 >>>> something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata
8 >>>> controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host. If the host system
9 >>>> is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the former
10 >>>> (host controller or mdadm).
11 >>>
12 >>> The disks look good so far ...
13 >>
14 >> Just to bump this one up again ...
15 >>
16 >> Hard disks OK, ran long smart-tests, completely ok.
17 >>
18 >> Still that high io-load from kdmflush.
19 >
20 > No change since then.
21 >
22 > What do you guys use? RAID1, RAID0 ?? LVM? Specific filesystems?
23 > I could also transfer it to another box using NFSv4 ... but that wasn't
24 > much difference back then.
25 >
26 > I would like to hear your thoughts, thanks, Stefan
27 >
28
29 Hi!
30
31 I just want to tell you that I experience similar problems with
32 vmware-player. I'm currently on kernel 2.6.32. The guest system is a
33 Ubuntu with an Oracle Express database (used for a database lecture I'm
34 taking).
35
36 The system feels like it swaps out the complete host system when I
37 switch to the guest system and vice versa although there is plenty of
38 free memory. It is so bad that the system becomes completely unusable
39 for more than 15 minutes. I didn't investigate it yet because I don't
40 really need that guest OS.
41
42 Regards,
43 Florian Philipp

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