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Re: [Xen-users] creating domU's consumes 100% of system resources

To: "jim burns" <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] creating domU's consumes 100% of system resources
From: n8&abby <thoughtobject@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:22:21 -0500
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Great, that really helped.   And I think I also found the main problem.. Write caching was off on my raid controller from the last time it was rebuilt..  Of course turning this on made all the difference.

Thanks,
-=nathan



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:34 PM, jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday April 20 2008 03:42:47 pm n8&abby wrote:
> I tried 'xm vcpu-set 0 1' to take the dom0 down to one virtual cpu.. but
> this didn't seem to have any affect.

You are setting the number of vcpus, but they are still allowed to raom
between al available pcpus. Try xm vcpu-pin.

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