[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-10-30 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-31 Thread Serge Hallyn
Hi Fabio, so then it sounds like it may be working fine. Once the VM is installed, does performance become more tolerable? What sort of backing store do you have - are you using an ecryptfs encrypted home directory? Keeping a KVM backign store in an encrypted home directory could certainly slow

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-27 Thread Fabio Marconi
Ok, I've done the test and the consumptions go down with writeback too, and also stay on a lower level respect that without writeback. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039166 Title: hi

Re: [Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-27 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Fabio Marconi (fabiomarc...@ubuntu.com): > Hallo Serge > Sorry I'm doing to much things at the same time forgetting part of this issue. > Yes it reach that point and consumption go down with the cache=none setting > (or the upgrade has its influence?), and in this way the machine is really

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-27 Thread Fabio Marconi
Hallo Serge Sorry I'm doing to much things at the same time forgetting part of this issue. Yes it reach that point and consumption go down with the cache=none setting (or the upgrade has its influence?), and in this way the machine is really fast. Do you suggest to revert back to cache=writeback ?

Re: [Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
I can't reproduce this on an amd laptop with uptodate quantal, using the quantal desktop iso for a guest. I do get about 174% cpu time for kvm while it is starting up and doing heavy i/o. But when it offers me the choice to try or install ubuntu, it settles down to 3%. I assume in your case the

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-24 Thread Fabio Marconi
yes with precise or win8 same behaviour, seems that there's some particular setting to speedup the guest when something moves, but this makes it jump to over 200%. Also I'm using a -VT processor i3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Thanks Fabio, Odd, I was sure that would be it. Do you get the same result with precise-desktop? I'm sorry that I haven't had a chance to reproduce. I'll try to do so this afternoon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-24 Thread Fabio Marconi
Hallo here it is njin@quantic:~/Ubuntu$ ps -ef | grep kvm root 765 2 0 08:31 ?00:00:00 [kvm-irqfd-clean] njin 11859 11822 0 19:18 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh -c kvm -uuid 4b6f3851-59ef-4af0-a8be-ea600aaa78c6 -m 1024 -smp 4 -cdrom /home/njin/Ubuntu/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Fabio, could you show the 'ps -ef | grep kvm' output with the updated kvm.py file? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039166 Title: high use of resource To manage notifications about t

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-23 Thread Fabio Marconi
Just now I'm downloading a new version (just uploaded) of qemu-kvm, hope it fix.. --- Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-23 Thread Fabio Marconi
Hallo Serge Actually, in Quantal, the file is located at: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testdrive/virt/kvm.py I've done the requested changes, but it won't work. Looking at attached screenshot seems that I've done things right. If you need something more, just let me know. Thanks Fabio --- Ubun

Re: [Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-23 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Fabio Marconi (fabiomarc...@ubuntu.com): > Hallo Serge > I've added the cache=none at the kvm testdrive parameters, but seems not > affecting the settings: > > njin@quantic:~$ ps -ef | grep kvm > root 562 2 0 19:06 ?00:00:00 [kvm-irqfd-clean] > njin 3533 3496 0 2

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-23 Thread Fabio Marconi
Hallo Serge I've added the cache=none at the kvm testdrive parameters, but seems not affecting the settings: njin@quantic:~$ ps -ef | grep kvm root 562 2 0 19:06 ?00:00:00 [kvm-irqfd-clean] njin 3533 3496 0 20:34 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh -c kvm -uuid e75dba4a-1fa8-4ee7

Re: [Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-21 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Fabio Marconi (fabiomarc...@ubuntu.com): > Hallo > Dunno if I done right, but in testdrive I've added -cache=none to the KVM > arguments. Could you then restart the VM and show the result here of: ps -ef | grep kvm > I've tried also to run in terminal but it return an Error -13

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-21 Thread Fabio Marconi
Hallo Dunno if I done right, but in testdrive I've added -cache=none to the KVM arguments. I've tried also to run in terminal but it return an Error -13 when I try to load the iso image. Thanks Fabio ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug not

Re: [Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-20 Thread Serge Hallyn
Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you change the cache=writeback to cache=none, and see if that improves the performance? ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notificati

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-20 Thread Fabio Marconi
** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2012-08-20 20:28:50.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/1039166/+attachment/3269352/+files/Screenshot%20from%202012-08-20%2020%3A28%3A50.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1039166] Re: high use of resource

2012-08-20 Thread Fabio Marconi
** Description changed: Hello Running testdrive with qemu-kvm. KVM is really slow, the cpu consumption is everytime over the 100% with a simple minimal installation of Ubuntu server. I'm waiting something about more than an hour to have it installed. Thanks Fabio + + njin@quantic:~$