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[Xen-users] Disk performance under Xen

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Subject: [Xen-users] Disk performance under Xen
From: Gavin Conway <gavin.conway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:32:53 +0100
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Hi All,

We're seeing some really poor disk performance under Xen Source. Below are the 
output of some Bonnie++ tests ran on the underlying host as well as on a HVM 
instance. We've seen the same level of performance on Debian Etch and Debian 
Lenny. Can anyone comment on what we might do to improve this and get 
near-native performance from a HVM machine.



Host - Running Centos 5.3

Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
tig-xen-host-1. 14G           212037  38 115111  19           300545  12 779.4

Write: 207MB/s
Rewrite: 112MB/s
Read: 293.5MB/s


Guest host - running Centos 5.3

Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
localhost.locald 2G           29566   4 21399   5           88812   9 497.7   6
localhost.localdomain,2G,,,29566,4,21399,5,,,88812,9,497.7,6,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Write speed: 28.87MB/s
Rewrite speed: 20.89MB/s
Read: 86.73MB/s


Thanks
Gavin


Gavin Conway
Senior Engineer, Operations (Systems Group), UKSolutions

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