Hi,
I'm testing KVM 80 (prepackaged from lfarkas.org) on CentOS 5.2 (both
guest and host) and comparing against Xen 3.3.0. The only modification
I've really made is that I've set noatime on both guest and host. The
guest is running straight from an LVM volume and is assigned 4 Gb RAM
and 4 virtual CPUs.
KVM does well reading from disk (300 Mbyte/s according to IOZone,
virtually the same as native) and computational tasks like OpenSSL
signing. But writing ends up at 30 Mbyte/s (native does 150 Mbyte/s)
and kernel compilation times are roughly double that of native. KVM 79
exhibited the same behavior for disk IO, but froze while compiling the
kernel.
So, short of using the virtio drivers (which I think would require a
custom kernel since RHEL 5.2 uses 2.6.18), are there any easy tweaks I
should try to make KVM fare better ?
The host is quad core Intel with 8 Gb RAM and a SAS RAID 5
configuration. Let me know if you'd like to see the results here.
Sincerely,
-Arne
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Arne Kepp
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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