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Re: [Xen-devel] horrible nfs server performance on domU

To: Tupshin Harper <tupshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] horrible nfs server performance on domU
From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:55:10 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Tupshin Harper wrote:

> the "fileserver" domU has 256Mb allocated with 512MB of swap. I'm gettin
> horrendous nfs performance (samba not really tested yet), and the fileserver
> domU frequently is pegged at 99+% system cpu all being use by pdflush. The
> swap is active but is not being used.

Time to try out whether profiling works in domU, so we can
figure out exactly where cpu time is being spent.  I'm willing
to help you debug this problem.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan


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