Re: [Xen-users] how many VCPUs per physical CPU?

[Peter Booth <peter_booth@xxxxxx>]

The "right answer" depends on what you want to optimize for. Your  
webserver has human users for whom a 500ms delay has a measurable  
impact. How important are those users compared to snappy email?
If a vm has to wait, which vm should it be?
What workload, normal and peak, do you anticipate for each vm?

My prejudice, as someone who works with website performance is to  
maximize user experience, but only you know your business context.
 I think that it's best to start simple and approach CPU tuning with  
a "trust but verify" mindset. I'd probably only dedicate a CPU for  
dom0, and
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On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Peter Peltonen <peter.peltonen@xxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a machine with  Intel Xeon E5420 quad core processor and I'm
> now wondering how to divide the CPU between all Xen instances.
>
> I am running one qmail based mail server and several LAMP web servers.
> The server OS is CentOS Linux.
>
> What I've learnt from the archives is that dom0 should have its own
> dedicated core.
>
> But what about the rest, the mail server needs most CPU time, so I
> could dedicate a core for it too. Would id benefit from having access
> to the "pool" of the remaining cores too?
>
> And what about VCPUs. Would a dom0 or domU benefit having say 2 VCPUs
> and running an SMP kernel while in reality it is running only on 1
> physical core?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
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