On 08/17/2012 03:36 PM, Richard Davies wrote: > Hi Avi, > > Thanks to you and several others for offering help. We will work with Avi at > first, but are grateful for all the other offers of help. We have a number > of other qemu-related projects which we'd be interested in getting done, and > will get in touch with these names (and anyone else who comes forward) to > see if any are of interest to you. > > > This slow boot problem is intermittent and varys in how slow the boots are, > but I managed to trigger it this morning with medium slow booting (5-10 > minutes) and link to the requested traces below. > > The host in question has 128GB RAM and dual AMD Opteron 6128 (16 cores > total). It is running kernel 3.5.1 and qemu-kvm 1.1.1. > > In this morning's test, we have 3 guests, all booting Windows with 40GB RAM > and 8 cores each (we have seen small VMs go slow as I originally said, but > it is easier to trigger with big VMs): > > pid 15665: qemu-kvm -nodefaults -m 40960 -smp 8 -cpu host,hv_relaxed \ > -vga cirrus -usbdevice tablet -vnc :99 -monitor stdio -hda test1.raw > pid 15676: qemu-kvm -nodefaults -m 40960 -smp 8 -cpu host,hv_relaxed \ > -vga cirrus -usbdevice tablet -vnc :98 -monitor stdio -hda test2.raw > pid 15653: qemu-kvm -nodefaults -m 40960 -smp 8 -cpu host,hv_relaxed \ > -vga cirrus -usbdevice tablet -vnc :97 -monitor stdio -hda test3.raw > 40+40+40=120, pretty close to your server specs. Are you swapping? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
