KVM scaling question about compile time

2014-08-30 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, I'm running KVM on Ubuntu 14.04 server. I run a single VM with a single vcpu on the host and compile mysql source, it takes about 13 minutes. When I run 2 VMs compiling mysql source at the same time, configured with one single vcpu, it takes about 17 minutes. Is it possible takes a less comp

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Theurer
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:19 -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote: > On 9/11/2009 at 3:53 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:36:10AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote: > >> I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when > > supporting many guests, or many vcpus or both. > >

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-14 Thread Bruce Rogers
On 9/11/2009 at 5:02 PM, Andre Przywara wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:36:10AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote: >>> I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when > supporting many guests, or many vcpus or both. >>> >>> I'll do some investigations int

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-14 Thread Bruce Rogers
On 9/11/2009 at 3:53 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:36:10AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote: >> I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when > supporting many guests, or many vcpus or both. >> >> I'll do some investigations into the per vm memory overhea

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-14 Thread Bruce Rogers
On 9/11/2009 at 9:46 AM, Javier Guerra wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Bruce Rogers wrote: >> Also, when I did a simple experiment with vcpu overcommitment, I was > surprised how quickly performance suffered (just bringing a Linux vm up), > since I would have assumed the additional

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-11 Thread Andre Przywara
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:36:10AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote: I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when supporting many guests, or many vcpus or both. I'll do some investigations into the per vm memory overhead and play with bumping the max vcpu

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:36:10AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when supporting > many guests, or many vcpus or both. > > I'll do some investigations into the per vm memory overhead and > play with bumping the max vcpu limit way beyond

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-11 Thread Javier Guerra
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Bruce Rogers wrote: > Also, when I did a simple experiment with vcpu overcommitment, I was > surprised how quickly performance suffered (just bringing a Linux vm up), > since I would have assumed the additional vcpus would have been halted the > vast majority o

kvm scaling question

2009-09-11 Thread Bruce Rogers
I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when supporting many guests, or many vcpus or both. I'll do some investigations into the per vm memory overhead and play with bumping the max vcpu limit way beyond 16, but hopefully someone can comment on issues such as locking probl