Hi Pablo, Today Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:13 am, Tobias Oetiker penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > > > Hi Pablo, > > Hi Tobi, > > > > Let me know if you'd like additional information. > > > > I asume your system is running without 'slowdown' effect ? you are > > only using a single core, right ? > > No, no slowdown that I've ever noticed. My machine doesn't have a lot > of RAM (yet) so I tend to run my VM's lean. I also don't run many > simultaneously. Typically no more than two. > > I also tend to not reboot my VM's often (unless required by say a > Windows update). I save its state and restart. > > The VM where I ran the benchmark, I don't think I had used it since > middle of December - project is currently on hold. ;) > > I did find it strange your disk I/O numbers seem very slow. What's > the native file system? ext4? Can you slap another drive on your > machine and pop XFS: > > mkfs.xfs -f -l lazy-count=1,size=128m _some_device_ the disk is a raid6 system with ext3 ... its performance is not the issue for our application ... what is killing me is the slowdown effect ... it causes windows to grind to a halt, requiering a reboot .. very unplesant ... cheers tobi ps. apropos fs performance, check out http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fsopbench/ > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
