Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-16 Thread Blaster
I finally found time to switch from virtio-scsi to virtio. Seems to have make a big difference. The windows VMs boot faster, web pages load faster, same with the Fedora 20 VMs. Everything just feels smoother. I found this interesting presentation: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/even

Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-15 Thread Sander Grendelman
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Blaster wrote: > On 1/14/2014 11:04 AM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: >> >> Did you compare virtio-block to virto-scsi, the former will likely >> outperform the latter. > > > No, but I have been meaning to, out of curiosity. > > But why do you say virto-blk will be faster

Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-14 Thread Blaster
On 1/14/2014 11:04 AM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: Did you compare virtio-block to virto-scsi, the former will likely outperform the latter. No, but I have been meaning to, out of curiosity. But why do you say virto-blk will be faster than virtio-scsi? The virtio-scsi wiki claims equal performanc

Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-14 Thread Andrew Cathrow
- Original Message - > From: "Blaster" > To: users@ovirt.org > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:22:37 PM > Subject: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O > > > This probably more appropriate for the qemu users mailing list, but > that list doesn

Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-13 Thread Sven Kieske
Hi, I suspect most users didn't complain because they do not have high IO workloads (yet). I think most people run test setups (as do I). However, in my own (artificial) IO workload test on engine 3.2.3. there was no extreme cpu penalty for higher IO, the read/write(cache/no cache) was an expect

Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-13 Thread Blaster
Sorry I missed your original post. But at least I know now I’m not the only one suffering this problem. I would be interested in knowing how wide spread this is, and why there aren’t people screaming up and down on the qemu mailing list about this issue? My system board is a Sabertooth X58

Re: [Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-13 Thread Markus Stockhausen
> Under ESXi I was pretty happy with the disk performance, and noticed very > little difference from bare metal to HV. > Under oVirt/QEMU/KVM, not so much…. Still unanswered ... have a look here ... http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/019429.html Markus *

[Users] Horrid performance during disk I/O

2014-01-13 Thread Blaster
This probably more appropriate for the qemu users mailing list, but that list doesn’t get much traffic and most posts go unanswered… As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m migrating my environment from ESXi to oVirt AIO. Under ESXi I was pretty happy with the disk performance, and noticed very li