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Re: [Xen-devel] VT is comically slow

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] VT is comically slow
From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:48:57 -0400
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Rik van Riel wrote:
VT by itself seems fine, but once a VT domain is running a workload that
is network intensive combined with a disk/cpu intensive workload, things
get incredibly slow.

Operations that take less than a second with either workload running
alone can now take many seconds, sometimes the better part of a minute!

Is this some limitation of the qemu device model?

Looking at it a bit more closely, it appears that postgresql
doing disk IO from inside a fully virtualized domain totally
kills the CPU.

It gets so bad that a simple "dmesg" takes 10-20 seconds to start,
and after that it spews data maybe 7 or 8 lines every other second.
Actually slower than serial console...

This is totally unusable :(

--
"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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