Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 23:00:55 schrieb Andrew Lentvorski: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Currently taking part in an MCSE certification training, (yes I know. but > > LPI C2 doesn't get me a job here. Nothing I can do about it) and > > situation is as follows: > > At the facility I got an intel E2140 (that's the crippled Core2Duo with > > 1MB L2 at 1.60 GHz) with 2GB RAM running Win2003 server. > > On that VMware WS6, on that a range of VMs sitting on a Samsung sATA, > > NTFS, nothing fancy. > > VMs are: Win2003, XP Pro, Vista, BackTrack3/HDinst (had to make myself at > > home *somehow* :) ) > > This machine restores 2k3, xp and BT3 *simultaneosly* in 15 seconds to > > the point when they react to mouse input, another 60 seconds till they > > are fully loaded. > > > > My box at home: > > AMD Athlon 64 5600+ 2x2.90GHz, 512k L2, 4gigs of RAM, same HDD, /dev/shm > > mounted,, Kubuntu 8.04 64b and debian etch, VMware WS6, VMs on an xfs > > partition. > > > > Restoring the 2003 Server alone takes roughly 3 minutes, and it won't > > react smoothly before that point. I notice a lot of harddisk activity. > > Both partition and guest OS vmdks are defragmented. > > > > Starting 2 VMs simultaneously is a total mess. > > (It used to work a lot better a year ago on Slackware 11 but I don't have > > that installed anymore, can't compare.) > > > > Anyone got pointers on how to spot the bottleneck? > > I'll try moving the server VM to another disk tonorrow, I somehow suspect > > xfs, then again xfs was made for handling large file afair. > > How big are the VM's in terms of emulated RAM? > > A 1GB virtual machine should take at least 20 seconds *just to read the > RAM from disk*. > > I would check the VMWare forums. This question has likely come up there. > > I suspect that they heavily optimize the Windows version and just leave > the Linux alone once it reaches working. > > -a
256MB each, the server as well as the XP VM. I'll copy one over to a win box as well and see how it performs there. The optimization thought crossed me, too, then again I can't really imagine they'd neglect Linux in such ways. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
