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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4.3 - bad IO performance on drbd devices

To: Felix Botner <botner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4.3 - bad IO performance on drbd devices
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:45:11 +0300
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:35:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> How much memory does your server have? 
> ie. how much ram do you have when you boot it baremetal without Xen.
> 
> Remember all the free memory of the host/dom0 will be used by linux 
> pagecache..
> So if you limit dom0 to 2GB, it'll have less cache than the baremetal case.
> 

if benchmarking from dom0, that is.

-- Pasi


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