[PVE-User] Very slow install of applications in Windows 2008R2 VM on Proxmox - What is the cause?
Eneko Lacunza
elacunza at binovo.es
Mon Sep 23 09:00:12 CEST 2013
Hi Bruce,
pveperf on the disk (/) ?
If you haven't, I think it will help you a lot installing virtio drivers
on the Windows guest, then changing VM disks from ide to virtio.
On 22/09/13 22:20, Bruce B wrote:
> Thanks for feedback Krzysztof and Alexandre. Below are the info:
>
> I am using 1x 500GB WD HDD. I can add another one if that helps -
> something like: WD5001AALS. Would that help? Where do you read the
> IOPS? and what is a good number of IOPS today?
>
> For VM I am using LOCAL QCOW2 - not sure how virtio drives work.
>
> Hoping following info help you tell me if I am hitting a controller
> bottleneck (meaning I can't help it) or if it is an HDD problem:
>
> *-storage
> description: SATA controller
> product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 1f.2
> bus info: pci at 0000:00:1f.2
> logical name: scsi0
> version: 00
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 66MHz
> capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
> emulated
> configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
> resources: irq:50 ioport:d880(size=8) ioport:d800(size=4)
> ioport:d480(size=8) ioport:d400(size=4) ioport:d080(size=32)
> memory:faffc000-faffc7ff
> *-disk
> description: ATA Disk
> product: WDC WD5001AALS-0
> vendor: Western Digital
> physical id: 0.0.0
> bus info: scsi at 0:0.0.0
> logical name: /dev/sda
> version: 05.0
> serial: WD-WCATR2413417
> size: 465GiB (500GB)
> capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
> configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512
> signature=00064f12
> *-volume:0
> description: EXT3 volume
> vendor: Linux
> physical id: 1
> bus info: scsi at 0:0.0.0,1
> logical name: /dev/sda1
> logical name: /boot
> version: 1.0
> serial: 8fe2447e-4258-4d39-b7c7-450b66460abf
> size: 511MiB
> capacity: 511MiB
> capabilities: primary bootable journaled
> extended_attributes recover ext3 ext2 initialized
> configuration: created=2013-08-06 16:38:36
> filesystem=ext3 modified=2013-08-09 17:14:18 mount.fstype=ext3
> mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered
> mounted=2013-08-09 17:14:18 state=mounted
> *-volume:1
> description: Linux LVM Physical Volume partition
> physical id: 2
> bus info: scsi at 0:0.0.0,2
> logical name: /dev/sda2
> serial: pqnaJf-WL5Q-kz2z-a3CJ-f6rS-Jxz4-LICwof
> size: 465GiB
> capacity: 465GiB
> capabilities: primary multi lvm2
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Krzysztof Bloniarz <kb0spam at gmail.com
> <mailto:kb0spam at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Could you confirm that you are using one 500GB SATA drive as your
> storage ?
> How many VMs are running on this drive ?
>
> This SATA drive is capable of 60 IOPS maybe 70IOPS, you can easily
> saturate this installing windows apps, particularly if you run
> simultaneous VMs on that drive
>
> To solve your 'performace' problems you have to build RAID and add
> more spindles.
>
> Regards,
> KB
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bruceb444 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am seeing very slow install of applications within a Windows
> 2008R2 VM that I built with 24Gbs of RAM (no users on it yet)
> and the Proxmox server is a DL160 G6 with Dual L5520 Xeon quad
> core CPUs. I don't see why this is acting so slow. I am
> looking for suggestions on how to make this work faster.
>
> Below are my findings of IO stats and HDD specifications. I
> would like to know if there is any hope to this server. I am
> running Windows 2008 R2 in IDE0 and QCOW mode.
>
> *root at hp:~# iostat -xkd 2 (util shows over 97% below as a
> program is being installed)*
> Linux 2.6.32-22-pve (hp) 09/20/2013 _x86_64_ (16 CPU)
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s
> wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util
> sda 0.00 13.50 0.00 94.50 0.00
> 9023.25 190.97 2.41 25.43 0.00 25.43 10.32 97.50
> dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 13.00 0.00
> 52.00 8.00 0.70 54.15 0.00 54.15 6.77 8.80
> dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.00 0.00
> 8913.25 187.65 2.29 24.12 0.00 24.12 10.24 97.30
>
>
> *hdparm output:*
>
> ATA device, with non-removable media
> Model Number: WDC WD5001AALS-00E3A0
> Serial Number: WD-WCATR2413417
> Firmware Revision: 05.01D05
> Transport: Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
> Standards:
> Supported: 8 7 6 5
> Likely used: 8
> Configuration:
> Logical max current
> cylinders 16383 16383
> heads 16 16
> sectors/track 63 63
> --
> CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
> LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
> LBA48 user addressable sectors: 976773168
> Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
> device size with M = 1024*1024: 476940 MBytes
> device size with M = 1000*1000: 500107 MBytes (500 GB)
> cache/buffer size = unknown
> Capabilities:
> LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
> Queue depth: 32
> Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
> R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 0
> Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
> PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
> Commands/features:
> Enabled Supported:
> * SMART feature set
> Security Mode feature set
> * Power Management feature set
> Write cache
> * Look-ahead
> * Host Protected Area feature set
> * WRITE_BUFFER command
> * READ_BUFFER command
> * NOP cmd
> * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
> Power-Up In Standby feature set
> * SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
> SET_MAX security extension
> Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
> * 48-bit Address feature set
> * Device Configuration Overlay feature set
> * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
> * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
> * SMART error logging
> * SMART self-test
> * General Purpose Logging feature set
> * 64-bit World wide name
> * {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
> * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
> * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
> * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
> * Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
> * Host-initiated interface power management
> * Phy event counters
> * NCQ priority information
> * DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
> * Software settings preservation
> * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
> * SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
> * SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
> * SCT Features Control (AC4)
> * SCT Data Tables (AC5)
> unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
> unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
> Security:
> Master password revision code = 65534
> supported
> not enabled
> not locked
> not frozen
> not expired: security count
> supported: enhanced erase
> 102min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 102min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
> Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50014ee2af8fec40
> NAA : 5
> IEEE OUI : 0014ee
> Unique ID : 2af8fec40
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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