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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen guest performance as a streaming server

To: Fasiha Ashraf <feehapk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen guest performance as a streaming server
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:41:19 +0200
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On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:36:27PM +0530, Fasiha Ashraf wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I am using xen3.4.1 with pv kernel 2.6.31.4 and  testing my xen
>    guest performance as a streaming media server and the other as web server.
>    the trends are same for both of them.
>    (1)When i tried to access media files from an internel guest, streaming
>    looks very poor.
>    (2)Then incase of accessing them from an externel guest its again poor but
>    just a little bit better than before.
>    (3)Incase of accessing them from host of the same machine it results good.
>    But i have not such issues with my previouse set up on FC8. Why the guests
>    acts like this?
> 

Are you running the latest pv_ops dom0 kernel (2.6.31.5) ? 
There was a network performance related bugfix committed a couple of days ago..

-- Pasi


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