Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/23/2011 04:14 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 10/22/2011 06:00 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Running iostat shows no I/O activity when running the tests for /dev/vdb which explains the insane numbers. The question is why I get such different results when both devices are defined exactly

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-20 Thread Charles Polisher
Mon, Oct 10, 2011, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: snip / The physical numbers are consistent and what I would expect to see from the sata drives. The guests are minimal centos 6 installations so after booting they have virtually no processes running that could influence the benchmarks in any

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-10 Thread Nehemiah
but thats what I'm asking you to investigate. All you see is a symptom, more data may clarify the situation. Weren't you taking data from both inside the guests an on the host's disks. It was kind of unclear. -- Nehemiah I. Dacres Saint Louis University: Advanced Technology Group Linux System

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/10/2011 08:27 PM, Nehemiah wrote: but thats what I'm asking you to investigate. All you see is a symptom, more data may clarify the situation. Weren't you taking data from both inside the guests an on the host's disks. It was kind of unclear. The guest number are the ones that are not

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-10 Thread Stoyan Marinov
Sorry, reply to wrong email :) On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Stoyan Marinov wrote: OK, I think I managed to fix it. Please check and let me know. Stoyan On Oct 10, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 10/10/2011 08:27 PM, Nehemiah wrote: but thats what I'm asking you to

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-09 Thread Nehemiah
On Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble benchmarking disk i/o in my vm's. The data I get seems bogus. have you tried perf top, you can see their other performance statistics there. there is more going on during a disk write than writing

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/09/2011 04:32 PM, Nehemiah wrote: On Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble benchmarking disk i/o in my vm's. The data I get seems bogus. have you tried perf top, you can see their other performance statistics there. there is more

[CentOS-virt] disk i/o benchmarking inside vm

2011-10-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I'm having trouble benchmarking disk i/o in my vm's. The data I get seems bogus. I have two centos 6 guests which use a raw image as volume. Each volume is stored on its own physical disk and both disks are the same model. The host system is fedora 15 with the virt-preview repo enabled.