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[Xen-users] how to debug slow HDD performance in Windows 2003 domU ?

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Subject: [Xen-users] how to debug slow HDD performance in Windows 2003 domU ?
From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:10:42 +0200
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Hi

I've recently setup CentOS 5.1 x64, with a Windows 2003 Web x64 domU and assigned 1 CPU & 1GB RAM to it.

Today, which installing something in Windows, I notice that it takes ages to install a program. Running xm top, it doesn't seem like it's running out of RAM or CPU, and checking Windows Task Manager, I can see it consumes only 2 - 6% CPU, and 127MB RAM in total. So, I believe it's probably an IO problem then?


xentop - 14:07:05   Xen 3.1.0-53.1.21.el5
4 domains: 1 running, 3 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown
Mem: 8387960k total, 4979120k used, 3408840k free    CPUs: 4 @ 2133MHz
NAME STATE CPU(sec) CPU(%) MEM(k) MEM(%) MAXMEM(k) MAXMEM(%) VCPUS NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) VBDS VBD_OO VBD_RD VBD_WR SSID cPanel001 --b--- 7673 0.6 1048444 12.5 1048576 12.5 2 1 30798 700440 1 0 196241 935986 0 cPanel002 --b--- 221 0.1 1048420 12.5 1048576 12.5 2 1 67 2408 1 0 20380 23765 0 Domain-0 -----r 2111 0.6 2208840 26.3 no limit n/a 4 4 1606255 7887454 0 0 0 0 0 windows2003_web --b--- 317 2.0 532352 6.3 1064960 12.7 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0


The server is a Dell PowerEdge 860, with a Dual Core 2.4Ghz Xeon CPU, 8GB DDRII-667 RAM, and 750GB SATAII HDD.

Installing something in a CentOS domU was very quick, so I also presume it's something Windows specific, but this is my first Windows domU attempt, so I don't know what to look for.

What do I do?

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