Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle yonatan.pin...@gmail.com wrote: you should have a look at your I/O disk status. try with iostat -dx 5 to

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle yonatan.pin...@gmail.com wrote: you

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: It seems dom0's memory got under pressure from the other domUs. Make sure to set an absolute minimum of memory for dom0 in xend.conf or using the boot option (forgot what it is). I always made it to the OS min of

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: It seems dom0's memory got under pressure from the other domUs. Make sure to set an absolute minimum of memory for dom0 in xend.conf or using the

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle yonatan.pin...@gmail.com wrote: you should have a look at your I/O disk status. try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. when it comes to slowdown on a virtual environment on a Desktop grade machine,  i suspect disk I/O

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle yonatan.pin...@gmail.com wrote: you should have a look at your I/O disk status. try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. when it comes to slowdown on a

[CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me in the right direction to optimize it a bit. The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA HDD. dom0 is set to 512MB limit with a few

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/23 Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com: Hi, I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me in the right direction to optimize it a bit. (SNIP) the server itself seems to eat up a lot of resources: root@zaxen01:[~]$ free -m             total       used       free  

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 23/02/11 12:29, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi, I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me in the right direction to optimize it a bit. The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk wrote: 2011/2/23 Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com: Hi, I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me in the right direction to optimize it a bit. (SNIP) the server itself seems to eat up a lot of resources:

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Ian Murray
Are they paravirt of HVM guests? qemu might have something to do with it if HVM guests are involved. - Original Message From: Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tue, 22 February, 2011 23:29:29 Subject: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Ian Murray murra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Are they paravirt of HVM guests? qemu might have something to do with it if HVM guests are involved. Uhm, I know that I should know this, but how do I tell from a quick glance? It's almost 2am in the morning here, and

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread yonatan pingle
you should have a look at your I/O disk status. try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. when it comes to slowdown on a virtual environment on a Desktop grade machine, i suspect disk I/O latency and bottleneck as a cause. check that your disk is running at its optimal

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA HDD. dom0 is set to 512MB limit with a few small XEM VM's running: root@zaxen01:[~]$ xm list Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State