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Re: [Xen-users] Big I/O performance difference between dom0 and domU

To: Liang Yang <multisyncfe991@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Big I/O performance difference between dom0 and domU
From: Marcin Owsiany <marcin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:57:02 +0100
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:34:10AM -0700, Liang Yang wrote:
> What is the CPU utilization when you did this I/O performance measurement?

"% CPU" reported by bonnie when writing/reading/random seeking in is
6/3/0% in dom0 and 4/2/0% in domU. bonnie was the only thing running
when performing the test.

> As far I can remember, Bonnie++ does not support using outstanding I/Os.
> So your target RAID volume may not be saturated, i.e. you did not get the 
> peak performance.

What other benchmarking tool would you suggest?

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