Currently taking part in an MCSE certification training, (yes I know. but LPI C2 doesn't get me a job here. Nothing I can do about it) and situation is as follows: At the facility I got an intel E2140 (that's the crippled Core2Duo with 1MB L2 at 1.60 GHz) with 2GB RAM running Win2003 server. On that VMware WS6, on that a range of VMs sitting on a Samsung sATA, NTFS, nothing fancy. VMs are: Win2003, XP Pro, Vista, BackTrack3/HDinst (had to make myself at home *somehow* :) ) This machine restores 2k3, xp and BT3 *simultaneosly* in 15 seconds to the point when they react to mouse input, another 60 seconds till they are fully loaded.
My box at home: AMD Athlon 64 5600+ 2x2.90GHz, 512k L2, 4gigs of RAM, same HDD, /dev/shm mounted,, Kubuntu 8.04 64b and debian etch, VMware WS6, VMs on an xfs partition. Restoring the 2003 Server alone takes roughly 3 minutes, and it won't react smoothly before that point. I notice a lot of harddisk activity. Both partition and guest OS vmdks are defragmented. Starting 2 VMs simultaneously is a total mess. (It used to work a lot better a year ago on Slackware 11 but I don't have that installed anymore, can't compare.) Anyone got pointers on how to spot the bottleneck? I'll try moving the server VM to another disk tonorrow, I somehow suspect xfs, then again xfs was made for handling large file afair. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
