Re: [Xen-users] Xen Performance

[Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Amir Maqbool Ahmed
<AmirM.Ahmed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It shows that for some types of Disk IO, like sequential delete and random 
> create
> Xen performs faster than native linux.

let me guess: you're running your DomU's images as files, and the
bonnie++ testsize is bigger than DomU's RAM, but less than Dom0's RAM.
 right?

it's an illusion created by the file-level caching at Dom0.  try
bigger a testsize and it should disappear.  in fact, with real-life
loads it's the slowest config, with better performance when you use
lower-level backends (LVM, or tap:) that skip the cache.

-- 
Javier

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