<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">cache=default would set the cache to writethrough. Also to improve perfomance, you could try virtio based disks. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers Thanks and Regards Saurav Lahiri Hexagrid Computing --- On Mon, 6/2/12, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] qcow2 performance To: "SAURAV LAHIRI" <saurav_lahiri@yahoo.com> Cc: libvirt-users@redhat.com Date: Monday, 6 February, 2012, 9:50 <div class="plainMail">Am 06.02.2012 09:59, schrieb SAURAV LAHIRI: > Hello, > The cache settings would also depend on the underlying storage. If you > are planning to use something like ext4 partition on the local harddisk > then cache=none would be suitable. Right now we try that, yes. As mentioned in the other msg I am currently not able to use cache=none, VM doesn't start that way ... still looking ... For now, yes, qcow2 on ext4. > It would be good to avoid cache=writeback on production environment as > there no guarantees that the write actually got saved to harddisk. > > cache=writethrough though slower than writeback is the most recommended > for the production environments. Right now I run "cache=default" ... what would that mean? (aio=threads works) > To get better performance it would be good to identify what additional > performance can be extracted from the underlying storage subsystem. Right now it looks more like the communication between the application and the client PCs is the bottleneck. Copying files from the VM over LAN is fast! So I assume I/O isn't the problem anymore. As mentioned I also chose "deadline"-scheduler for IO-scheduling on the host. We just try to check through everything to be able to nail it down on the software house delivering that application ... Thanks, Stefan </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>