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Re: [Xen-users] Re: domU has better I/O performance than dom0?

To: Troels Arvin <troels@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: domU has better I/O performance than dom0?
From: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:44:37 +0100 (CET)
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Troels Arvin wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:27:54 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > The commandline was
> >
> > /usr/sbin/bonnie -d . -s 0.130 -n 8096 -r 8096
>
> You are measuring file creation rate, and not "raw I/O throughput",
> right? In that sense, your tests are different from what I measured.
> Still, your results are certainly strange. I wonder if they would be
> equally strange if you ran them on different non-virtualized servers.

I benchmarked iSCSI and NFS. You will notice the strangeness on NFS too:

http://xen.bot.nu/benchmarks/virtueel.html


Since NFS crashes my system if I do a benchmark that is larger than my
memory I guess the benchmark is done in memory (initially). Since the FC
results show better performance, could it be the offloading with multiple
processors?


Stefan


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