[Xen-users] IO performance depends on number of DomU's?

[Danilo Godec <danilo.godec@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was monitoring IO performance of my Xen server using 'iostat' on Dom0
and 'bonnie++'. With no DomU's running, I get about 40 MB/s write and 70
MB7s read - which seems OK for a SW RAID5 array with 6 SATA drives...

Running only one DomU doesn't change much - running bonnie++ on either
Dom0 or DomU shows almost the same result (again monitoring 'iostat' on
Dom0).

After I start 16 DomU's, the IO performance goes down the drain - I only
get 5-6 MB/s running bonnie++ in Dom0 - or any of the DomU's. What's
interesting is that 'iostat' on Dom0 also shows only 5-6 MB/s of IO - so
it doesn't look like the cumulative IO of all DomU's would saturate the
actual IO capability of the hardware...

Any ideas? Things to try?

Is it possible to dedicate one of the CPUs to Dom0 exclusively?

 Danilo




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