Dan,
You didn't mention disk activity or whether the CPUs are waiting on
anything. I have noticed (at least in my limited experience) that when
a DomU is using a lot of disk, the Dom0 will show that the CPU (using
plain old "top") is spending a significant amount of time waiting for
the I/O.
Here's my top header. Note that this machine is mostly idle. :)
top - 15:41:57 up 5:59, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 98 total, 1 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi,
0.0%si, 0.0%st
But if you have a lot in "wa" (I/O wait) that could be the source of
some trouble.
In other words, if the server is not doing what you want it to be
doing, you need to figure out what it IS doing. :)
--Joel
On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Dan Zhang wrote:
I'm installing Xen with the OpenSUSE 10.2 distro and the
bigsmp-2.6.18.8-0.13.i586 kernel. However, I occasionally get insane
amounts of slowdown (almost 100x) in dom0. On bootup, performance is
normal. After an undeterministic period of time, I get this crazy
amount of slowdown. I'm not sure why this is the case and I have
spent a long time trying to figure it out. There are no background
processes running and nothing CPU intensive shows up on top or ps aux.
One point of interest is that when I run 'lsmod', the modules
ide_core and ide_disk are missing. I tried installing them but it
seems that they aren't necessary. Since performance is fine on
startup, I'm not sure if this is a problem.
I'm installing and compiling Xen 3.3.0 from scratch by using "make
world", etc.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks!
Dan
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