On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 12:32 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 11:22 +0100 schrieb Mark McLoughlin: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 21:21 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > > Hey. > > > > > > When running a guest in the following setup, I observ a "massive" > > > performance decrease after a couple of gigabytes of transfrerred data. > > > > > > other guests keep running fine (no regressions) and nothing unusual is > > > observed on the host. > > > > If you do "killall -ALRM qemu-kvm" after the slowdown has occurred, does > > it make things speed up again for a while? > > > > It seems so! > Fantastic. > > > If so, the issue is fixed by: > > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ba661292a2bc6ddd305a212b0526e5dc22195fe7 > > > > It also got applied in 2.6.26.3 and 2.6.25.16. > > > > So it was some signaling-bug on the .. client side?
No, it was a kernel race condition causing the qemu-kvm process to stop receiving SIGALRM signals. The original thread might explain it a bit better: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/19582 Cheers, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
