Hello Lynn, I'm using a bridge, which is configured in my /etc/network/interfaces like this: auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 195.24.77.169 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 195.24.77.1 bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off bridge_maxwait 5
an I have a file called qemu-ifup in /etc which has the following content: #!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 promisc up /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 $1 sleep 2 Every guest has it's own tap device, atm tap0 - tap4 are in use. Those peaks are coming after +/- 10 mins (not always the same time, sometimes after 5 mins, it changes). Within this time, the guests have normal pings. Lynn Kerby schrieb: > Hi Mike, > > Glad to hear that your networks are up now, but what are you using to > connect/bridge them? Those response times are horrible across the > board! > > All my VMs are connected to my internal network via a bridge on the > host through their tap interfaces and a few lucky machines share > another bridge that is on my DMZ with static IPs. I think the > network bridge method I use is based on some stuff I picked up a few > years ago when working with the UML virtualization stuff. I see sub > millisecond ping responses in both directions and to all VMs (usually > I've got 3 or 4 active, soon to expand to a few more). > > My HOST config is similar though I've got a only 4GB of memory and > I'm still running KVM-52 modules. My guests are Ubuntu 7.10, Fedora > 8, and FreeBSD 6.2 at the moment with Mint4.0 and JeOS on the drawing > board. > > Lynn Kerby > San Martin, CA > > On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Mike wrote: > > >> Hello, >> I already spoke to Izik Eidus. He told me to publish the results to >> the >> problem at the mailinglist. >> >> Some time ago I wrote to the kvm-devel mailinglist that I had a >> problem >> with my guests' networking dying. >> I got the hint to change the network card emulation. That worked. >> >> Now I noticed a strange behaviour. >> I have a gameserver running in a guest os. No problems on performance >> side, really fast. >> The only thing, when I make a ping test after unspecific time >> periods I >> get this: (this peaks are even there if the gameserver isn't running) >> >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=123ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=382ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=397ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=647ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=857ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=1156ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 195.24.77.170: bytes=32 time=692ms TTL=57 >> Reply from 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guest, without -no-kvm have the ping peaks. Also here, no >> ping >> peaks from the host. >> Server load is really really low at the moment of the tests. >> >> Maybe you have an idea where this peaks are coming from? >> I'm using KVM-55 on Ubuntu 7.10 server with Kernel Linux A050 >> 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux. >> My CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (Dual Core) with 8GByte of RAM. >> >> Greetings from Luxembourg. >> Mike Weimichkirch >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper >> from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going >> mainstream. 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