Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Nux!
On 10.08.2012 13:46, Julian price wrote: I have 2 similar servers. Since upgrading one from CentOS 5.5 to 6, disk write performance in kvm guest VMs is much worse. There are many, many posts about optimising kvm, many mentioning disk performance in CentOS 5 vs 6. I've tried various changes

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Philip Durbin
Nice post, Julian. It generated some feedback at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-08-10 and a link to http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/wagner_network_perf.pdf Phil On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Julian price centos@julianprice.org.uk wrote: I have 2 similar servers.

Re: [CentOS-virt] RAID: by host or within KVM?

2012-08-11 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/10/12, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote: 1. Let the KVM host manage the drives (i.e. RAID with LVM on top) and just assign the single volume to OMV. OMV will see it as one HD. 2. Assign the individual drives to the OMV KVM, and let OMV manage the RAID creation,

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Julian price
I have 2 similar servers. Since upgrading one from CentOS 5.5 to 6, disk write performance in kvm guest VMs is much worse. Philip Durbin wrote: Nice post, Julian. It generated some feedback at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-08-10 and a link to

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Nanook
Actually the physical disk position can make a HUGE difference. I have a machine with a velociraptor 1GB drive which I have parititioned into two 500GB partitions, the average speed of the first (on the outside cylinders of the drive) is far better than the second on the inside. Sorry I

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Julian price
physical disk position shouldn't have such a marked effect should it? Nanook wrote: Actually the physical disk position can make a HUGE difference. Thank you Nanook for your explanation. I think you're right. It looks like the variation in performance is not due to LVM, but the position on

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Trey Dockendorf
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Julian price centos@julianprice.org.uk wrote: physical disk position shouldn't have such a marked effect should it? Nanook wrote: Actually the physical disk position can make a HUGE difference. Thank you Nanook for your explanation. I think you're