context switches and responsiveness

2009-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I've recently increased the number of guests (+20%) running on one of my hosts and found that the responsiveness suffered. Before that, the context switches were hovering around 10K, now they're close to 30K. Or this could just be because I

Re: context switches and responsiveness

2009-05-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Antoine Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I've recently increased the number of guests (+20%) running on one of my hosts and found that the responsiveness suffered. How many guests? How many vcpus? Before that, the context switches were hovering around

Re: context switches and responsiveness [SOLVED]

2009-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ah, -usbdevice tablet, interrupt generator from hell. Let it go and you'll see your context switch rate drop. Indeed that solved it! (only kept it for the one windows guest that really needs it) Many many thanks. - total-cpu-usage

Re: context switches and responsiveness [SOLVED]

2009-05-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Antoine Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ah, -usbdevice tablet, interrupt generator from hell. Let it go and you'll see your context switch rate drop. Indeed that solved it! (only kept it for the one windows guest that really needs it) Many many thanks.

Re: context switches and responsiveness [SOLVED]

2009-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Avi Kivity wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ah, -usbdevice tablet, interrupt generator from hell. Let it go and you'll see your context switch rate drop. Indeed that solved it! (only kept

Re: context switches and responsiveness [SOLVED]

2009-05-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Antoine Martin wrote: Switching to a better vnc client (I use vinagre) may allow you to drop it. I thought I had tried them all in desperation (mouse going out of sync), I'll try again. Vinagre does mouse capture like SDL. It isn't perfect, but much better than the standard vnc