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Re: [Xen-users] performace of disks

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos
<listas.vhs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Fernando Jiménez Solano
> <fernandojs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I guess it depends more on the kind of disk activity of the VMs rather than
>> the number of VMs. Database server? Desktop? Media streamer?
>
> mmmm.. mmmm.. and mmmm
> but.. all virtual disks aren't one big image for Dom0 ???
> in other words, this type of data in the virtual disks is relevant ??

not the "type of data", but the "type of access".  IOW, if your DomUs
store a lot of small files, they'll do lots of small read/writes.
even if the image is one big file, or one partition, the accesses
would still be fine-grained.

-- 
Javier
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