Matthew Tippett wrote:
Hi,
I would like to call attention to the SQLite performance under KVM in
the current Ubuntu Alpha.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2631_kvm&num=3
SQLite's benchmark as part of the Phoronix Test Suite is typically IO
limited and is affected by both disk and filesystem performance.
Gotta love Phoronix's transparent methodology...
Ubuntu's Karmic release has _not_ been released yet. For this
particular test, Phoronix was probably using an alpha drop before Ubuntu
switched from kvm-84 to qemu-kvm-0.11.0.
Before 0.11.0, there were known issues with qcow2 and it was not
recommended for use in production environments. If you read the release
notes for 0.10.0, we made this very clear. Because of some performance
problems, in 0.10.x we made cache=writeback the default for qcow2. We
document this pretty thoroughly. See
http://www.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC10 Some other distros that shipped
0.10.x made cache=none the default in order to ensure data integrity (at
the cost of performance).
For 0.11.0, Kevin Wolf has fixed the performance/reliability issues in
qcow2 and we now set cache=writethrough for qcow2 by default.
And FWIW, Karmic has been on the 0.11.0 tree now for at least a month.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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