Re: cpu frequency

2015-02-03 Thread Andrey Korolyov
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Nerijus Baliunas wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:07:57 +0400 Andrey Korolyov wrote: > >> Have you tried to disable turbo mode (assuming you have new enough CPU >> model) and fix frequency via frequency governor` settings? If it >> helps, it can be an ugly hack with

Re: cpu frequency

2015-02-03 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:07:57 +0400 Andrey Korolyov wrote: > Have you tried to disable turbo mode (assuming you have new enough CPU > model) and fix frequency via frequency governor` settings? If it > helps, it can be an ugly hack with pre-up/post-up libvirt actions, > though you`d probably want to

Re: cpu frequency

2015-02-03 Thread Andrey Korolyov
> It did not help. Today that commecrial application detects 2400, although > Control Panel -> System shows 2.20 GHz. > So my question again - is it possible to patch qemu-kvm that it shows some > constant frequency to the guest? But the answer is probably not, because > I don't know how the applic

Re: cpu frequency

2015-02-03 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 03/02/2015 14:25, Nerijus Baliunas wrote: > It did not help. Today that commecrial application detects 2400, although > Control Panel -> System shows 2.20 GHz. > So my question again - is it possible to patch qemu-kvm that it shows some > constant frequency to the guest? But the answer is prob

Re: cpu frequency

2015-02-03 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
t; The problem is, that commercial application stops working after it detects > > CPU frequency change (2200 -> 2298 in above case). Is it possible to patch > > qemu-kvm that it shows some constant frquency to the guest? > > Do you know how the application computes the f

Re: cpu frequency

2015-01-05 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
Nerijus Baliunas users.sourceforge.net> writes: > Paolo Bonzini redhat.com> writes: > > > In the case of Windows it's probably some timing loop that is executed > > at startup, and the result depends on frequency scaling in the host. > > Try adding this to the XML in the meanwhile, and see if t

Re: cpu frequency

2014-12-23 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
Paolo Bonzini redhat.com> writes: > Do you know how the application computes the frequency? No. > In the case of Windows it's probably some timing loop that is executed > at startup, and the result depends on frequency scaling in the host. > Try adding this to the XML in the meanwhile, and see

Re: cpu frequency

2014-12-23 Thread Paolo Bonzini
1, 64, 64, 2298, > 078BFBFD000206A1, 10753, CPU 0 > > Windows Server 2012 Control Panel -> System shows CPU as 2.3 GHZ, but after > reboot it might show 2.2 or 1.97 GHz. > > The problem is, that commercial application stops working after it detects > CPU frequency change (2200 -&

Re: cpu frequency

2014-12-23 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
Paolo Bonzini redhat.com> writes: > How are you running qemu-kvm? (Command line, or XML if you're using > libvirt, or similar). XML - http://paste.fedoraproject.org/162378/14193357 command line - http://paste.fedoraproject.org/162379/93358231 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: cpu frequency

2014-12-23 Thread Paolo Bonzini
as: > CPU_0: CPU0, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 1, 64, 64, 2298, > 078BFBFD000206A1, 10753, CPU 0 > > Windows Server 2012 Control Panel -> System shows CPU as 2.3 GHZ, but after > reboot it might show 2.2 or 1.97 GHz. > > The problem is, that commercial applica

cpu frequency

2014-12-23 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
, 078BFBFD000206A1, 10753, CPU 0 Windows Server 2012 Control Panel -> System shows CPU as 2.3 GHZ, but after reboot it might show 2.2 or 1.97 GHz. The problem is, that commercial application stops working after it detects CPU frequency change (2200 -> 2298 in above case). Is it possible to patch qe

Re: KVM guest OS reports zero CPU frequency via /proc/cpuinfo

2013-03-01 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > > power management: > > $ > > > > I tried to convert .vmdk to qcow2 image and also tried different > –cpu= options, but I always get zero frequency in this guest. > > Another guest (Ubuntu in native qcow2 image) works

Re: Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Schmitt
Marcelo Tosatti schrieb: > Hum, can you try converting that vmdk image to qcow2 or raw? (with > qemu-img convert). > > AFAICS the QEMU vmdk implementation is synchronous, so the guest > waits on IO operations to complete on the host side. I'll do so, but I can only make the conversion early mor

Re: Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2010-01-06 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:15:02AM +0100, Martin Schmitt wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti schrieb: > > > Can you please share a few more "soft lockup" messages? (with > > backtrace included). > > Full dmesg from guest: http://pastebin.com/f51a966df > > > Also qemu command line. > > >From ps: > > /usr/

Re: Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Schmitt
Marcelo Tosatti schrieb: > Can you please share a few more "soft lockup" messages? (with > backtrace included). Full dmesg from guest: http://pastebin.com/f51a966df > Also qemu command line. >From ps: /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /drbd/vweb/vweb.vmdk -vnc 127.0.0.1:4 -m 512 -net

Re: Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2010-01-06 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
lenty of idle RAM: > > [r...@zulu ~]# free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 7987 7904 82 0667 5101 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2135 5851 > Swap: 1983 0

Re: Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2010-01-04 Thread Martin Schmitt
>> on the CentOS guest systems, but unfortunately, CPU scaling is not >> available in my guests. So, here's my question: How do I enable CPU >> scaling in KVM guests? Or is there any other measure against these soft >> lockups that you can recommend? > > What probab

Re: Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2009-12-24 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
est systems, but unfortunately, CPU scaling is not > available in my guests. So, here's my question: How do I enable CPU > scaling in KVM guests? Or is there any other measure against these soft > lockups that you can recommend? What probably was suggested is to disable cpu frequency

Soft lockups and cpu frequency scaling

2009-12-22 Thread Martin Schmitt
All, I'm running a manually compiled KVM on CentOS 5.4. The KVM installation has been carried over from CentOS 5.3, when KVM wasn't distributed with the OS. (I tried to migrate to CentOS 5.4 native KVM support, but wasn't able to get along with RedHat's interpretation of KVM.) The KVM version use