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Re: [Xen-devel] I/O bound dom0 locks-ups

To: Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] I/O bound dom0 locks-ups
From: John L Griffin <jlg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:15:48 -0500
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> 1) Is it most likely that this is caused by how the schedulers work or
> is it due to using loop files?

In my experience, it's due to using loop files.  High I/O loads in the 
guests killed dom0's interactivity and I/O response time.  Since you have 
LVM set up already for the swap files, it should be easy to verify this 
with an all-LVM configuration?



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