Darren Blaber wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if any of you were able to to help me figure out > why I am getting poor performance with kvm. When running windows as a > guest os, when windows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses > about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am doing any kind of activity (especially > disk activity) its shoots right up to 99%. Anyway, have a readprofile > snap shot as well as kvm stat output. > > 7383 hpet_rtc_timer_init 35.4952 > 2360 sys_timer_gettime 18.4375 >
This is suspiciously high. Anything about hpet in dmesg? Can you try a .config without hpet? -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel