On 09/10/2012 07:51 AM, Alfred Bratterud wrote: > For a research project we are trying to boot a very large amount of tiny, > custom built VM's on KVM/ubuntu. The maximum VM-count achieved was 1000, but > with substantial slowness, and eventually kernel failure, while the > cpu/memory loads were nowhere near limits. Where is the likely bottleneck? > Any solutions, workarounds, hacks or dirty tricks?
Are you using cgroups? There have been some known bottlenecks in the kernel cgroup code, where it scales very miserably; and since libvirt uses a different cgroup per VM by default when cgroups are enabled, that might explain part of the problem. Other than that, if you can profile the slowdowns, I'm sure people would be interested in the results. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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