Are they paravirt of HVM guests? qemu might have something to do with it if HVM
guests are involved.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, 22 February, 2011 23:29:29
> Subject: how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me
> in the right direction to optimize it a bit.
>
> The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can
> take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA HDD.
>
> dom0 is set to 512MB limit with a few small XEM VM's running:
>
>
> root@zaxen01:[~]$ xm list
> Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
> Domain-0 0 512 4 r----- 96.5
> actionco.vm 3 1519 1 -b---- 14.8
> byracers.vm 4 511 1 -b---- 85.7
> ns1 5 511 1 -b---- 22.3
> picturestravel 6 255 1 -b---- 13.3
> rafttheworld 7 255 1 -b---- 11.3
> zafepres.vm 8 511 1 -b---- 19.0
>
>
>
>
> the server itself seems to eat up a lot of resources:
>
>
> root@zaxen01:[~]$ free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 512 472 39 0 13 215
> -/+ buffers/cache: 244 268
> Swap: 4095 0 4095[/CODE]
>
>
> Yet, it only has XEN, Webmin (since it's a CloudMin XEN server), Exim,
> Apache and a few other services running:
>
>
>
> root@zaxen01:[~]$ chkconfig --list |grep "3:on" |awk '{print $1}' |sort
> acpid
> auditd
> crond
> csf
> dhcpd
> exim
> haldaemon
> httpd
> iptables
> iscsi
> iscsid
> kudzu
> lfd
> lvm2-monitor
> mdmonitor
> network
> qemu
> restorecond
> setroubleshoot
> smartd
> snmpd
> sshd
> syslog
> sysstat
> webmin
> xend
> xendomains
>
>
>
>
> Is there anything I can optimize on such a server?
>
>
>
> The server runs CentOS 5.5 x64:
>
> root@zaxen01:[~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
>
> root@zaxen01:[~]$ uname -a
> Linux zaxen01.softdux.com 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 5
> 18:44:24 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> with Xen version 3.1.2-194.32.1.el5
>
>
> And there's the xm dmesg output:
>
>
> Xen version 3.1.2-194.32.1.el5 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version
> 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) Wed Jan 5 17:43:03 EST 2011
> Latest ChangeSet: unavailable
>
> (XEN) Command line: dom0_mem=512M
> (XEN) Video information:
> (XEN) VGA is text mode 80x25, font 8x16
> (XEN) VBE/DDC methods: V2; EDID transfer time: 1 seconds
> (XEN) Disc information:
> (XEN) Found 1 MBR signatures
> (XEN) Found 1 EDD information structures
> (XEN) Xen-e820 RAM map:
> (XEN) 0000000000000000 - 000000000008f000 (usable)
> (XEN) 000000000008f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> (XEN) 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> (XEN) 0000000000100000 - 00000000cf53f000 (usable)
> (XEN) 00000000cf53f000 - 00000000cf54b000 (reserved)
> (XEN) 00000000cf54b000 - 00000000cf620000 (usable)
> (XEN) 00000000cf620000 - 00000000cf6e8000 (ACPI NVS)
> (XEN) 00000000cf6e8000 - 00000000cf6ec000 (usable)
> (XEN) 00000000cf6ec000 - 00000000cf6f1000 (ACPI data)
> (XEN) 00000000cf6f1000 - 00000000cf6f2000 (usable)
> (XEN) 00000000cf6f2000 - 00000000cf6ff000 (ACPI data)
> (XEN) 00000000cf6ff000 - 00000000cf700000 (usable)
> (XEN) 00000000cf700000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
> (XEN) 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> (XEN) 0000000100000000 - 0000000230000000 (usable)
> (XEN) System RAM: 8181MB (8378020kB)
> (XEN) Xen heap: 13MB (13720kB)
> (XEN) Domain heap initialised: DMA width 32 bits
> (XEN) Processor #0 7:7 APIC version 20
> (XEN) Processor #2 7:7 APIC version 20
> (XEN) Processor #1 7:7 APIC version 20
> (XEN) Processor #3 7:7 APIC version 20
> (XEN) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> (XEN) Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
> (XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit)
> (XEN) Detected 2485.797 MHz processor.
> (XEN) HVM: VMX enabled
> (XEN) VMX: MSR intercept bitmap enabled
> (XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled
> (XEN) CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz stepping 07
> (XEN) Booting processor 1/2 eip 90000
> (XEN) CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz stepping 07
> (XEN) Booting processor 2/1 eip 90000
> (XEN) CPU2: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz stepping 07
> (XEN) Booting processor 3/3 eip 90000
> (XEN) CPU3: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz stepping 07
> (XEN) Total of 4 processors activated.
> (XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> (XEN) -> Using new ACK method
> (XEN) Platform timer overflows in 2 jiffies.
> (XEN) Platform timer is 1.193MHz PIT
> (XEN) Brought up 4 CPUs
> (XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
> (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff80200000 memsz=0x2f4d70
> (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff804f4d80 memsz=0x14c510
> (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff80642000 memsz=0xc08
> (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff80644000 memsz=0x11be8c
> (XEN) elf_parse_binary: memory: 0xffffffff80200000 -> 0xffffffff8075fe8c
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: GUEST_OS = "linux"
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: GUEST_VERSION = "2.6"
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: XEN_VERSION = "xen-3.0"
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: VIRT_BASE = 0xffffffff80000000
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: PADDR_OFFSET = 0xffffffff80000000
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: ENTRY = 0xffffffff80200000
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: HYPERCALL_PAGE = 0xffffffff80206000
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: FEATURES =
>"writable_page_tables|writable_descriptor_tables|auto_translated_physmap|pae_pgdir_above_4gb|supervisor_mode_k
>k
> ernel"
> (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: LOADER = "generic"
> (XEN) elf_xen_addr_calc_check: addresses:
> (XEN) virt_base = 0xffffffff80000000
> (XEN) elf_paddr_offset = 0xffffffff80000000
> (XEN) virt_offset = 0x0
> (XEN) virt_kstart = 0xffffffff80200000
> (XEN) virt_kend = 0xffffffff8075fe8c
> (XEN) virt_entry = 0xffffffff80200000
> (XEN) Xen kernel: 64-bit, lsb, compat32
> (XEN) Dom0 kernel: 64-bit, lsb, paddr 0xffffffff80200000 ->
>0xffffffff8075fe8c
> (XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
> (XEN) Dom0 alloc.: 0000000222000000->0000000224000000 (122880 pages
> to be allocated)
> (XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
>
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Rudi Ahlers
> SoftDux
>
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