[Xen-users] a performance question

[Chris Fanning <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

First of all I'd like to thank everyone for making Xen so user
friendly. I thought I'd be sweating through this but it's been pretty
straight forward (thanks to all the different tutorials on the net).

I've got a domU that I created with
dd if=/dev/zero of=vm_base.img bs=1024k count=4000
mkfs.ext3 vm_base.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=vm_base-swap.img bs=1024k count=1000
mkswap vm_base-swap.img
mount -o loop vm_base.img /mnt
debootstrap etch /mnt

this has worked fine and I'm happily continuing with the installation

But.
I have a performance question. For example.
vi /etc/hosts (or any other file)
will take about five seconds to open the first time I use 'vi', but
after that it opens files as fast as expected.

This seems to repeat itself with other programmes.
kdm_greet takes way too long the first time, but from then on it starts up ok.

Can anyone explain this to me?

Thank you
Chris.

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