[Fedora-xen] expected disk performance?

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Tue May 23 14:54:54 UTC 2006


> On two local guests on a rawhide box:
>
>  Device-backed guest (LVM on fast SATA disk):
>   dom0 hdparm -t:       53.70 MB/sec
>   domU hdparm -t:       53.61 MB/sec
>
>  File-backed guest:
>   dom0 hdparm -t:       85.7138 MB/sec
>   domU hdparm -t:       75.2901 MB/sec

I guess "hdparm -t" is not very significative, but anyways:

dom0: hdparm -t: 149.17 MB/sec
domU: hdparm -t: 97..07 MB/sec

However, real performance is somewhat lower, at about 70MB/s for dom0
and about 33MB/s




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