Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.1 terrible slowly on a laptop

[carlopmart <carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Comment them out and just use the pygrub.
> > >
> > > > name = "RhelUpdates"
> > > > memory = "384"
> > > > maxmem = "384"
> > > > disk = [ 
> > > > 'tap:aio:/data/xenvmguests/rhel4updates/rhel4vol01.xvda,xvda,w' ]
> > > > vif = [ 'type=ieomu, mac=00:16:31:a5:67:13, bridge=natxenbr0' ]
> > > > vcpus = 1
> > > > on_reboot = 'restart'
> > > > on_crash = 'destroy'
> > > > sdl = 0
> > > > vnc = 1
> > > > vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncunused=1' ]
> > I think that hdparm returns correcty parameters:
> > /dev/hda:
> >  multcount    = 16 (on)
> >  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
> >  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
> >  using_dma    =  1 (on)
> >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> >  readonly     =  0 (off)
> >  readahead    = 256 (on)
> >  geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0
> >
> >  DMA it is activated, and this disk is IDE, I am not sure if I can 
> > activate 32 bits transfer using -c1 option on hdparm.
> Almost any hard drive made this millennium can use 32-bit: the IDE 
> defaults (more typically PATA now!) are set extremely, extremely low 
> performance for backwards compatible reasons, and really should be 
> updated. I once spent a long argument with a kernel developer about how 
> "the kernel picks the higher performance default!" and had to walk him 
> through the code that showed him, no, the kernel preserved what it was 
> set to the lat time it was warm-rebooted. It you actually power off, it 
> resets to to the lower settings and stays there until manually reset. It 
> led to a huge performance improvement and the cost savings of buying a 
> lot of big SCSI drives that had a serious kernel compatibility issue 
> (due to this developer's insistence on backporting everything from new 
> kernels instead of forward porting their modifications to a contemporary 
> kernel: b-r-r-r-r!
> >  If I don't put which kernel image needs to startup on guest system 
> > with kernel and ramdisk params, I can't start guest. Pygrub returns a 
> > lot errors about doesn't find a valid kernel image.
> Ahh. Do you have the matching kernel installed in your guest domain, so 
> that insmod can find them and install them? It definitely looks like 
> you've not successfully loaded the boot loader in a way that grub can 
> find it. Can you run "grub-install /dev/xvda1" from your working DomU 
> environment?
> >  I will try to use a complete file image, and not sparse file ...
> Cool. That's one source of performance issues to check.
ok, i have tried it using file image and not sparse file and with hdparm -c1 
option and the results are the same: all is really slowly under dom0 ... I don't 
understand why...


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CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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