Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-10 Thread Bryce Chidester
> My VPS provider says it will take them a couple of weeks to enable virtio. > Does it really take that long? > Almost certainly not. Enabling virtio is just a change in a single config file, and a full stop/start of the VM. However, they may have to move your VM to another host (one with a newer

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-09 Thread opendaddy
On 6. oktober 2013 at 1:15 PM, "Manolis Tzanidakis" wrote: > >First, upgrade to STABLE to avoid potential kernel panics. Check >patch 007 in http://openbsd.org/errata53.html for more info. M:Tier >offers pre-built patches and packages, if you want to avoid compiling. >Check https://stable.mtie

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-06 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 6. oktober 2013 at 1:15 PM, "Manolis Tzanidakis" wrote: > >First, upgrade to STABLE to avoid potential kernel panics. Check >patch 007 in http://openbsd.org/errata53.html for more info. M:Tier >offers pre-built patches and packages, if you want to avoid compiling. >Check https://stable

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
On Sun (06/10/13), openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > On 6. oktober 2013 at 10:18 AM, "Manolis Tzanidakis" > wrote: > >virtio(4) can make a big difference. > Looks awesome! I just load this into my kernel? > OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC) #53: Tue Mar 12 18:15:44 MDT 2013 First, upgrade to STABLE to avoid p

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-06 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 6. oktober 2013 at 10:18 AM, "Manolis Tzanidakis" wrote: > >Hello, >virtio(4) can make a big difference. >Providing at least a dmesg dump will get you better answers :). Looks awesome! I just load this into my kernel? On 6. oktober 2013 at 10:35 AM, "Darren Tucker" wrote: > >one thing

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-06 Thread Darren Tucker
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:13:21AM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Good point. I'm doing asset precompilation in this Ruby on Rails app > - a process that should only take a couple of minutes if not seconds, > but ends up taking over 1 hour on my VPS. I asked around and it seems > to be a ve

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
On Sun (06/10/13), openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Good point. I'm doing asset precompilation in this Ruby on Rails app - a > process that should only take a couple of minutes if not seconds, but ends up > taking over 1 hour on my VPS. I asked around and it seems to be a very I/O > intensive pro

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-06 Thread opendaddy
On 6. oktober 2013 at 4:29 AM, "Chris Cappuccio" wrote: > >This is really vague. What tasks are taking so long? > >You are sharing disk I/O, oversubscribed. You are sharing CPU >time, oversubscribed. > >Any clues? Good point. I'm doing asset precompilation in this Ruby on Rails app - a process

Re: My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-05 Thread Chris Cappuccio
openda...@hushmail.com [openda...@hushmail.com] wrote: > Hi, > > My OpenBSD VPS is taking way too long to complete certain tasks. Is there a > way to stress test my system to find out if it's working the way it should? > > I'm suspecting my ISP is having trouble with their hardware or KVM setup,

My VPS is acting slow (KVM)

2013-10-05 Thread opendaddy
Hi, My OpenBSD VPS is taking way too long to complete certain tasks. Is there a way to stress test my system to find out if it's working the way it should? I'm suspecting my ISP is having trouble with their hardware or KVM setup, but I'd like to do everything I can before I take it to them. Th