Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.04.2010 18:55, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: It's not THAT bad here, but the XP-guest takes a while to boot, yes. Right now I simply don't shutdown the guest and hibernate-to-ram the whole linux-box. I moved the VM from a LV formatted with XFS to another LV formatted with ext4 (both

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.04.2010 20:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-04-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.04.2010 16:41, schrieb Florian Philipp: I just want to tell you that I experience similar problems with vmware-player. Good to hear that ... in a way. I'm currently on kernel 2.6.32. The guest system is a Ubuntu with an Oracle Express database (used for a database lecture I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-04-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is something like a performance regression in the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.03.2010 23:37, schrieb Kyle Bader: If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop. Also look for D state procs with ps auxr. Are you on a software raid? Yes, sw-raid level 1, two SATA-disks. iotop points to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader: If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 That sounded good, but

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Kyle Bader
If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop. Also look for D state procs with ps auxr. Are you on a software raid? If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-11 Thread Kyle Bader
If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 On 3/10/10, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Recently I see bad

[gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Recently I see bad performance with my vmware-server. Loads of harddisk IO ... even bad on the RAID1, disks working all the time (I hear them and iostat tells me). Might have to do with kernel 2.6.33 and non-fitting vmware-modules? I masked some modules back then because they didn't work,