On Friday 17 August 2012 07:36:42 Richard Davies wrote: > Hi Avi, > > Thanks to you and several others for offering help. We will work with Avi > at first, but are grateful for all the other offers of help. We have a > number of other qemu-related projects which we'd be interested in getting > done, and will get in touch with these names (and anyone else who comes > forward) to see if any are of interest to you. > > > This slow boot problem is intermittent and varys in how slow the boots are, > but I managed to trigger it this morning with medium slow booting (5-10 > minutes) and link to the requested traces below. > > The host in question has 128GB RAM and dual AMD Opteron 6128 (16 cores > total). It is running kernel 3.5.1 and qemu-kvm 1.1.1. > > In this morning's test, we have 3 guests, all booting Windows with 40GB RAM > and 8 cores each (we have seen small VMs go slow as I originally said, but > it is easier to trigger with big VMs): > > pid 15665: qemu-kvm -nodefaults -m 40960 -smp 8 -cpu host,hv_relaxed \ > -vga cirrus -usbdevice tablet -vnc :99 -monitor stdio -hda test1.raw > pid 15676: qemu-kvm -nodefaults -m 40960 -smp 8 -cpu host,hv_relaxed \ > -vga cirrus -usbdevice tablet -vnc :98 -monitor stdio -hda test2.raw > pid 15653: qemu-kvm -nodefaults -m 40960 -smp 8 -cpu host,hv_relaxed \ > -vga cirrus -usbdevice tablet -vnc :97 -monitor stdio -hda test3.raw > > We are running with hv_relaxed since this was suggested in the previous > thread, but we see intermittent slow boots with and without this flag. > > > All 3 VMs are booting slowly for most of the attached capture, which I > started after confirming the slow boots and stopped as soon as the first of > them (15665) had booted. In terms of visible symptoms, the VMs are showing > the Windows boot progress bar, which is moving very slowly. In top, the VMs > are at 400% CPU and their resident state size (RES) memory is slowly > counting up until it reaches the full VM size, at which point they finish > booting.
What memory options have you tried? (KSM, hugepages, -mem-preallocate)? Is this only with 2008? (is that regular? R2?) Have you tried any of the hyperv features/hints? > > > Here are the trace files: > > http://users.org.uk/slow-win-boot-1/ps.txt (ps auxwwwf as root) > http://users.org.uk/slow-win-boot-1/top.txt (top with 2 VMs still slow) > http://users.org.uk/slow-win-boot-1/trace-console.txt (running trace-cmd) > http://users.org.uk/slow-win-boot-1/trace.dat (the 1.7G trace data file) > http://users.org.uk/slow-win-boot-1/trace-report.txt (the 4G trace report) > > > Please let me know if there is anything else which I can provide? > > Thank you, > > Richard. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
