Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.1 terrible slowly on a laptop

[carlopmart <carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
> > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > carlopmart wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > >  I have installed rhel 5.1 with xen 3.1 on a laptop and ALL is 
> > > > terrible slowly (network, mouse, etc.) If I starts with a normal 
> > > > kernel (without xen enabled) all works normally. Do I need to pass 
> > > > any param to grub on xen enabled kernel to all works ok??
> > > > Thanks ...
> > > Laptops are always an adventure. Do you really have enough RAM? RHEL 
> > > 5 is a bit of a RAM pig. Are you using all the CPU's, or only one? Is 
> > > your hard drive an ATA drive that needs "hdparm" used to set it 
> > > optimally? Tell us more!
> > My laptop have 1 GB of RAM, and it is Pentium M 2.0Ghz. for guests I 
> > only use one cpu. And another problem is clock: lost 5 minutes every 
> > 15 min.... runs so slowly on host ...
> Umm. Not good. Are you running NTP on the Dom0, and being sure not to 
> run it on your DomU? And how much RAM did you allocatae for DomU? RHEL 5 
> is really, really unhappy with less than 250 Meg, and not exactly 
> thrilled with as little as 500 Meg.
Yes, I am running ntp on dom0 and not on domU. I am suing 384 MB ram for guest, 
and rest for dom0.
--
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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