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Re: [Xen-users] Xen, NFS performance, rsize, wsize and MTU

To: "Nicholas Lee" <emptysands@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen, NFS performance, rsize, wsize and MTU
From: "Chris Fanning" <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:07:44 +0100
Cc: Ceri Storey <cez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Richard Jones <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> http://stateless.geek.nz/2005/08/29/xen-disk-performance/
thanks for the insight Nicholas.

So, would you say that any file sharing (smb for example) might be
better on dom0?

Chris.

On 2/18/06, Nicholas Lee <emptysands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/02/06, Richard Jones <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > You're right and it is a single processor machine.  I'm not expecting
> > blazing performance (we far prefer reliability / predictability).
> > It's just really is quite slow at the moment and I'm sure that it's
> > down to some sort of configuration mistake.
>
> I thought the same thing, but two processors didn't seem to solve this for
> me when I was running something similar with 2.0. Moving the NFS to host0
> seemed to be the solution. I didn't try running the NFS server with a  dom0
> kernel. That might be worth trying.
>
> http://stateless.geek.nz/2005/08/29/xen-disk-performance/
>
>
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