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Re: [Xen-users] [Fwd: XCP - extreme high load on pool master]

To: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] [Fwd: XCP - extreme high load on pool master]
From: Vern Burke <vburke@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:39:59 -0400
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Thousands of VMs on a single XCP pool? It's just my opinion of course but I wouldn't try to run 100:1 (or worse) virtualization ratios unless you're running 12 cores (and a ton of memory) or better in a box.

Keep in mind that the pool master is doing a ton of work for the entire pool, which explains why its load is higher than the slaves. In my cloud, I generally reserve the pool master for admin work rather than running production workloads on it.

The reason for this is that there's still an ongoing bug in XCP's developers console that you can only connect to the console of a VM that's running on the pool master. Try to connect to a VM that's on any of the slaves and you get just a blank white window.


Vern Burke

SwiftWater Telecom
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Xen Cloud Control System
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On 7/21/2010 4:13 PM, George Shuklin wrote:
Good day.

We trying to test XCP cloud under some product-like load (4 hosts, each with 
24Gb mem and 8 cores)

But with just about 30-40 virtual machines I got an extreme load on dom0
on pool master host: LA is about 3.5-6, and most time are used by xapi
and stunnel processes.

It's really bother me: what happens on higher load with few thousands of
VMs with about 10-16 hosts in pool...

top data:

Tasks:  95 total,   3 running,  91 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):19.4%us,42.1%sy,0.0%ni,35.8%id,  1.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.0%si, 0.3%st
Mem:    746496k total,   731256k used,    15240k free,    31372k buffers
Swap:   524280k total,      128k used,   524152k free,   498872k cached

PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
17  -3  315m  14m 5844 S 52.3  2.0   5370:41 xapi
17  -3 22524  15m 1192 S  8.3  2.2 875:16.18 stunnel
15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0  54:28.78 netback
10 -10  6384 1868  892 S  0.3  0.3  22:03.14 ovs-vswitchd

dom0 on non-master hosts are loaded about 25-30% each.



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