On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:00 AM Jean-Louis Dupond via Users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We backup our VM's with a custom script based on the
> https://github.com/oVirt/python-ovirt-engine-sdk4/blob/main/examples/backup_vm.py
> example.
> This works fine, but we start to see scaling issues.
>
> On VM's where there are a lot of dirty blocks,

We need to see the list of extents returned by the server.

The easiest way would be to enable debug logs - it will be even slower,
but we will see these logs showing all extents:

    log.debug("Copying %s", ext)
    log.debug("Zeroing %s", ext)
    log.debug("Skipping %s", ext)

It will also show other info that can help to understand why it is slow.

> the transfer goes really
> slow (sometimes only 20MiB/sec).

Seems much slower than expected

> At the same time we see that ovirt-imageio process sometimes uses 100%
> CPU

This is possible, it shows that you do a lot of requests.

> (its single threaded?).

It uses thread per connection model. When used with backup_vm.py or other
examples using the ovirt_imageio.client it usually use 4 connections
per transfer
so there will be 4 threads on the server size serving the data.

Please share debug log of a slow backup, and info about the backup image storage
for example, is this local file system or NFS?

Nir
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