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Re: [Xen-devel] qemu-dm cpu utilization

To: "McAfee, Tommie M" <Tommie.McAfee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] qemu-dm cpu utilization
From: "George Dunlap " <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:30:30 -0400
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Another pertinent question is, what size screen are you using?

From what I've heard, rather than trap on every MMIO instruction, HVM
guests are given direct access to the virtual framebuffer.  But this
means that QEMU needs to scan the framebuffer on a regular basis to
find changes, and then do diffs to make appropriate VNC changes.  This
probably scales linearly with the number of pixels to be scanned.

Try using a lower resolution, and see what you get.

-George

On 8/28/06, McAfee, Tommie M <Tommie.McAfee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, at least with w2k3. Could you try and repro with w2k3?

I'm getting the same results with win2k3 that I get with the winXP and sles9, 
so it's probably not a sles9 issue.  I started the win2k3 guest and waited 
about 4-5 mins for it to finish booting.  At this point qemu-dm used 0% CPU.  
When I launched vncviewer to display the win2k3 guest, qemu-dm jumped to 
40%-45%.

What do you think is causing this to happen?

Tommie McAfee
Xen-Testing



-----Original Message-----
From: Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh
Sent: Mon 8/28/2006 11:00 AM
To: Ian Pratt; McAfee, Tommie M; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] qemu-dm cpu utilization

> No, at least with w2k3. Could you try and repro with w2k3?

Will do.  BTW, we are seeing the same issue if we use SDL.

> What VNC client are you using?

TightVNC viewer version 1.2.9

> Thanks,
> Ian


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