Re: 64 bit guest much faster ?

2009-10-26 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 10/23/09 17:54, Stefan wrote: Hello, I have a simple question (sorry I'm a kvm beginner): Is it right that a 64bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB) is much faster than a 32bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB PAE). Yes. With *that* much memory the 32bit guest

Re: 64 bit guest much faster ?

2009-10-26 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/26/2009 10:58 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 10/23/09 17:54, Stefan wrote: Hello, I have a simple question (sorry I'm a kvm beginner): Is it right that a 64bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB) is much faster than a 32bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB PAE). Yes.

Re: 64 bit guest much faster ?

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Tokarev
Avi Kivity wrote: On 10/26/2009 10:58 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 10/23/09 17:54, Stefan wrote: Hello, I have a simple question (sorry I'm a kvm beginner): Is it right that a 64bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB) is much faster than a 32bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB PAE).

Re: 64 bit guest much faster ?

2009-10-26 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/26/2009 12:42 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Oh yes, without ept/npt the slowdown should indeed be significant with this much memory. How it is with 4Gb guest/mem without PAE (I mean, with CONFIG_HIGHMEM_4G=y)? Or even 2Gb? In case of npt or without. It'll be slow. Just use x86_64

Re: 64 bit guest much faster ?

2009-10-24 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/23/2009 05:54 PM, Stefan wrote: Hello, I have a simple question (sorry I'm a kvm beginner): Is it right that a 64bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB) is much faster than a 32bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB PAE). (kvm guest and kvm host are Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-15-server, kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.3). eg

64 bit guest much faster ?

2009-10-23 Thread Stefan
Hello, I have a simple question (sorry I'm a kvm beginner): Is it right that a 64bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB) is much faster than a 32bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB PAE). (kvm guest and kvm host are Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-15-server, kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.3). eg dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools runs twice as