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Date:      Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:24:50 +0200
From:      Marko Lerota <mlerota@pdsvelebit.hr>
To:        Roger Pau =?utf-8?Q?Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD XEN <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Poor disk IO on Xenserver 6.2
Message-ID:  <86vboy1er1.fsf@arch.perpetuum.hr>
In-Reply-To: <5405FD77.2000102@citrix.com> ("Roger Pau \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Monn\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=C3\=A9\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:25:11 %2B0200")
References:  <86lhq7odub.fsf@arch.perpetuum.hr> <5400B39E.3090904@citrix.com> <86tx4un8bd.fsf@cosmos.claresco.hr> <5405FD77.2000102@citrix.com>

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Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <roger.pau@citrix.com> writes:

> FreeBSD was able to deliver >30000iops in all cases, and the throughput
> was around 1000MB/s for all test cases also. On the other hand, Linux
> was only able to deliver around 10000iops, with a throughput of
> ~400MB/s. This was tested using xen-unstable and a Linux v3.15 Dom0.
>
> Could you try to run this benchmark on both your FreeBSD and Linux
> guests? Please make sure guests are set to use the same amount of
> RAM/CPUs.

Sorry for late reply.=20

I have installed today new beta version of Xenserver from 2014-09-05
XenServer release 6.4.96-88161c (xenenterprise)

uname -a
3.10.0+2 #1 SMP Thu Sep 4 12:04:32 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Didn't have time to learn fio program so I did simple test with
copy-paste. Again on Debian 7.6.0 stable files have been copied=20
at 300MB/s speed while FreeBSD 10 release had 25MB/s.=20

I just did:=20

cp some-big-file file1-test

and I measured the time from start to finish. Both hosts have the=20
same amount of RAM, DISK and CPUs. I also tested this on 3 different
servers. HP ML330, HP DL160 and old Sun X2200. The results are the
same.=20

--=20
Marko Lerota
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