Hi Michael, Today Michael Mounteney wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:14:56 +0100 (CET) > Tobias Oetiker <t...@oetiker.ch> wrote: > > > This leads me to suspect, that either only very few people are > > using omnios as a kvm server OR it is also a hardware dependent > > problem. > > I think it must be. I'm running KVM (Gentoo Linux guests) and have > just gone from 151010 to 151012. I haven't carried-out any > quantitative assessment, but didn't notice any slowdown. For the > record, my KVM invocation is: > > /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ > -name "Gentoo "$WHAT \ > -cpu host \ > -boot order=d \ > -enable-kvm \ > -vnc cortex:$VNC \ > -smp 1,maxcpus=1,cores=2 \ > -m 1024 \ > -no-hpet \ > -localtime \ > -kernel > /gentoo/kernel-source/linux-3.17.4-gentoo-vbox/arch/x86/boot/bzImage \ > -append "root=/dev/vda1 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet" \ > -drive > file=/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/vol/Gentoo-KVM-${WHAT},cache=none,if=virtio,index=0 \ > -drive > file=/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/vol/Linuswap-${WHAT},cache=none,if=virtio,index=1 \ > -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=$mac,model=virtio,name=ncard1 \ > -net vnic,vlan=0,name=net0,ifname=$VNIC,macaddr=$mac \ > -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:${monitor},server,nowait \ > -vga std \ > -daemonize > > where ${WHAT} is either KDE or XFCE. Machine is a Supermicro 5017C-LF with 1 > x Intel Xeon E3-1240V2 3.40 GHz.4 Cores , 4 Threads,8Mb cache and 8 GiB RAM. > > If you are interested in any performance figures, let me know any tar or dd > etc. commands you'd like me to run. yes, a very simple test: guest$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=20 | ssh host dd of=/dev/null guest$ ssh host dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=20 | dd of=/dev/null and since I suspect that the disk io suffers too but due to caching, maybe reading just a bit off the disk device might be an interesting test: dd if=/dev/vda of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 cheers tobi > Michael. > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902 _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss