Re: [Xen-users] GPLPV 0.9.12-pre4 uploaded - Windows starup/login problem ?

[Roel Broersma <roel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

Have you already fixed your login/startup problems ?  (You said it was so
slow..)
I have had some of those things before (with other non-virtual servers);
- Check you event log (Application and System) for errors.
- Is your server in a Domain or is it a Domain controller itself ?  (you can
have (domain) group policy problems..)
- Sometimes the network drivers load to slow.. (keep in mind that the switch
and network card probably also do some SpanningTree/Portfast things.. but
that's no issue with Vm's i think ;).  If the network drivers get loaded to
late... the DHCP and other services get into problems... sometimes you see
results of that in the event log.
You should also see in the event log when the network driver is loaded (or
maybe you should program some debug code in the network driver, so you see
the startup time..)

Hope this helps..

Roel



James Harper wrote:
> 
> I've just uploaded 0.9.12-pre4 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads
> 
> Fixes/updates since 0.9.12-pre3:
> . rolled back IRQ restriction which would prevent the drivers from
> starting if the pci device wanted to use an IRQ < 16
> . fixed another bug in crash dump that could possibly cause corruption
> under high Dom0 disk load
> . performance improvements to xennet - udp performance is much much
> better, I can easily achieve 500MBits/second from Dom0<->DomU or
> DomU<->External machine over 1GBit/second wire. Tcp performance should
> be as good as before but with lower cpu.
> 
> To see some of the the network performance improvements, you'll need to
> disable 'Check checksum on RX packets'. It only exists as WHQL fails
> without it, even though it isn't a real-world scenario. The 'interrupt
> moderation' option appears to cause things to go slower at the moment...
> it may reduce load but I think it needs some more tuning!
> 
> If anyone can offer any suggestions as to why my Windows 2003 R2 server
> takes so long to get to the login prompt after boot with GPLPV but is
> quicker without it I'd like to hear them - it seems to get it's dhcp
> lease quickly enough so something else about the network adapter or
> about the gplpv drivers must be causing the delay...
> 
> James
> 
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