Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-20 Thread Henrik Holst
> > This is probably the change to cache=writethrough. I bet if you set > > cache=writeback then you'll see this go away. > > cache=writeback is only slightly faster, like going from 6MB/s to 7MB/s. ignore that remark, I retested with cache=writeback and everything is OK again. I must have mis

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Henrik Holst
ons 2008-11-19 klockan 12:26 -0600 skrev Anthony Liguori: > Ryan Harper wrote: > > * Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-18 08:42]: > > > >> The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 > >> images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around > >> 6M

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
Would this affect 'qemu-img commit'? It took over an hour to commit a fresh install of Vista on a qcow2 virtual disk. (The base image expanded from 3GB to 11GB, which is a lot of committing, though.) Yes. Regards, Anthony Liguori -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread walt
Anthony Liguori wrote: Ryan Harper wrote: * Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-18 08:42]: The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around 6MB/s with 78 and 79 (measured with dd) dd command? what's

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
Thomas Mueller wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:26:41 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: This is probably the change to cache=writethrough. I bet if you set cache=writeback then you'll see this go away. this was it. cache=writeback and the throughput goes from 10mb/s to 80/mb/ s with if=scsi

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:26:41 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Ryan Harper wrote: >> * Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-18 08:42]: >> >>> The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 >>> images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around >>> 6MB/s

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
Ryan Harper wrote: * Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-18 08:42]: The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around 6MB/s with 78 and 79 (measured with dd) dd command? what's your -drive par

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Ryan Harper
* Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-18 08:42]: > The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 > images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around > 6MB/s with 78 and 79 (measured with dd) dd command? what's your -drive parameters look like, specif

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:39:52 +0100, Henrik Holst wrote: > The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 > images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around > 6MB/s with 78 and 79 (measured with dd) so i'm not the only one facing this problem. - Thomas -

qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-18 Thread Henrik Holst
The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around 6MB/s with 78 and 79 (measured with dd) Replacing qemu with the one bundled in kvm-77 solves this regression. I have tested all the cache= options to -drive wit