[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:31:34PM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:26:52PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > [...] > > this is presumed to be infinitely better than forcing the swapspace to > > be always on disk, especially with the guests only being allocated > > 32mbyte of physical RAM. > > I'd be interested in knowing how a tmpfs that's gone far into swap > performs compared to a more normal on-disk fs. I don't know if anyone > has ever looked into it. Is it comparable, or is tmpfs's ability to > swap more a last-resort escape hatch? > > This is the part where I would add something valuable to this > conversation, if I were going to do that. (But no.) :) okay. some kind person from ibm pointed out that of course if you use a file-based swap file (in xen terminology, disk=['file:/xen/guest1-swapfile,/dev/sda2,rw'] which means "publish guest1-swapfile on the DOM0 VM as /dev/sda2 hard drive on the guest1 VM) then you of course end up using the linux filesystem cache on DOM0 which is of course RAM-based. so this tends to suggest a strategy where you allocate as much memory as you can afford to the DOM0 VM, and as little as you can afford to the guests, and make the guest swap files bigger to compensate. ... and i thought it was going to need some wacky wacko non-sharing shared-memory virtual-memory pseudo-tmpfs block-based filesystem driver. dang. l. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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