[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: Reducing impact of save/restore/dump on Dom0
"Graham, Simon" <Simon.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently, save, restore and dump all used cached I/O in Dom0 to > write/read the file containing the memory image of the DomU - when the > memory assigned to the DomU is greater than free memory in Dom0, this > leads to severe memory thrashing and generally the Dom0 performance goes > into the toilet. > > The 'classic' answer to avoiding this when writing very large files is, > of course, to use non-cached I/O to manipulate the files - Otherwise you can just use madvise()/fadvise() to tell the kernel to drop the old data [the later might need a fairly recent kernel to work] It has the advantage that it doesn't need much other changes. -Andi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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