[Fedora-xen] expected disk performance?

Stephen C. Tweedie sct at redhat.com
Tue May 23 10:54:18 UTC 2006


Hi,

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 20:26 -0700, Ben wrote:
> Today I upgraded to the new xen and kernel packages that just came  
> out, as I'd been looking forward to all the IO cleanup supposedly in  
> xen 3.0.2. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that my domU's  
> virtual disks still seem to be throttled at around 2MB/s sustain  
> writes for some reason. My dom0 is "much" better at ~14MB/s sustained  
> writes.

Are you using a file or device-backed virtual device?

--Stephen





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