Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Hi all, Just for the record, I do not think that OpenBSD/i386 behavior with virtual disks running on KVM is a bug. Virtio was designed specially for virtual machines and all modern Linux distros and other modern operating systems support it, therefore the only good reason for not using

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting Kent Fritz fritz.k...@gmail.com: Hopefully this is not too bad advice... I've found the performance with cache=none to be unacceptable as well. I'm using cache=writeback. Of course you'll get much better performance if you remove Linux/KVM. :) It might be the case for OpenBSD/i386,

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Kent Fritz
:84,model=virtio -net tap,ifname=tap17 -drive file=/dev/eliseos/qemu-004,cache=none,if=virtio -cdrom /software/OpenBSD/5.5/i386/install55.iso -boot d -daemonize I would like to share this because I have read in many places about hard disk slowliness with OpenBSD, verly likely dissapointing new

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Richard E. Thornton
=tap17 -drive file=/dev/eliseos/qemu-004,cache=none,if=virtio -cdrom /software/OpenBSD/5.5/i386/install55.iso -boot d -daemonize I would like to share this because I have read in many places about hard disk slowliness with OpenBSD, verly likely dissapointing new users when in fact

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Mark Kettenis
The way OpenBSD/i386 uses the xAPIC interrupt controller gives KVM (and other virtualization software) a hard time. OpenBSD/amd64 does things in a KVM-friendlier way, and we're trying to make it even friendlier. Fixing the interrupt handling on OpenBSD/i386 isn't very high on my priority list.

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
Martin, Theo, I would like to apologize you and other developers for spreading unhelpful advises which hurt the project. I truly regret that and I am very sorry. Regards, Mikolaj On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:34:36AM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote: Dear Mikolaj, On 09/01/15(Fri) 00:30, Mikolaj

OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-08 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
,model=virtio -net tap,ifname=tap17 -drive file=/dev/eliseos/qemu-004,cache=none,if=virtio -cdrom /software/OpenBSD/5.5/i386/install55.iso -boot d -daemonize I would like to share this because I have read in many places about hard disk slowliness with OpenBSD, verly likely dissapointing new

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-08 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
-boot d -daemonize I would like to share this because I have read in many places about hard disk slowliness with OpenBSD, verly likely dissapointing new users when in fact OpenBSD is very good. -- best regards q#

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-08 Thread Martin Pieuchot
Dear Mikolaj, On 09/01/15(Fri) 00:30, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: Hi, This problem looks very similar as: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=140288534929223w=2 On my i386 KVM after each upgrade I run this: #!/bin/sh for kernel in /bsd /bsd.mp do config -fe $kernel

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-08 Thread Theo de Raadt
This problem looks very similar as: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=140288534929223w=2 On my i386 KVM after each upgrade I run this: #!/bin/sh for kernel in /bsd /bsd.mp do config -fe $kernel EOF find mpbios disable mpbios find mpbios find acpimadt disable