Hi Roberto, On 6 December 2016 at 19:01, Roberto Fichera <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've set to copy host configuration (16 cores) and memory is set to 24GB, host has 64GB. > Guest is Windows 2012 64bits version Is the guest configured with 16 cpus or 16 cores? >> Are you pinning to dedicated CPUs, > >no I would, to ensure cpu or cache performance is absolutely not a problem, and it's simple to do (see vcpupin). >> are you exposing host topology and cpu >> features, > > Yes So you have something like: <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='1' cores='8' threads='2'/> In your domain xml? >> do you have dedicated I/O threads? > > if you are talking about disk I/O, no. Should I do that? Hard to say what the problem is without a lot more information - maybe the system in question is performance limited by the DB design... But if you are bottlenecking on I/O in the guest whilst the host seems to have more I/O available then you probably want to consider tuning this: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsIOThreadsAllocation >> Are you backing the guest memory with hugepages? > > Don't know, how can I check or set it? You can either use transparent huge pages (assuming you are not doing any PCI passthrough), or create a static hugepage allocation for guests. Search for documentation specific to your OS. -- Cheers, ~Blairo _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users