[PVE-User] Very slow install of applications in Windows 2008R2 VM on Proxmox - What is the cause?

Eneko Lacunza elacunza at binovo.es
Tue Sep 24 08:32:35 CEST 2013


I never used VZ containers, but I'd say this is pretty normal, as 
containers run on the hypervisor kernel, so the filesystems must be 
mounted on it :)

On 24/09/13 01:08, Bruce B wrote:
> And does this strike you as odd - I never seen this on another proxmox:
>
> root at hp:~# df -h
> Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev                        10M 0   10M   0% /dev
> tmpfs                      4.8G  304K  4.8G   1% /run
> /dev/mapper/pve-root        95G  1.4G   89G   2% /
> tmpfs                      5.0M 0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> tmpfs                      9.5G 22M  9.5G   1% /run/shm
> /dev/mapper/pve-data       302G 59G  243G  20% /var/lib/vz
> /dev/sda1                  495M 56M  415M  12% /boot
> /dev/fuse                   30M 40K   30M   1% /etc/pve
> /var/lib/vz/private/40020  150G  1.2G  149G   1% /var/lib/vz/root/40020
> none                       4.0G  8.0K  4.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40020/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40100   80G  932M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40100
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40100/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40150   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40150
> none                       1.0G  4.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40150/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40101   80G  932M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40101
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40101/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40103   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40103
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40103/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40104   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40104
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40104/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40105   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40105
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40105/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40106   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40106
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40106/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40107   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40107
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40107/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40102   80G 1005M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40102
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40102/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40011   80G  1.5G   79G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40011
> none                       2.0G  4.0K  2.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40011/dev
> none                       2.0G 0  2.0G   0% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40011/dev/shm
> /var/lib/vz/private/40111   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40111
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40111/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40112   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40112
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40112/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40113   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40113
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40113/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40115   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40115
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40115/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40116   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40116
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40116/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40117   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40117
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40117/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40118   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40118
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40118/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40010   20G  759M   20G   4% /var/lib/vz/root/40010
> none                       512M  4.0K  512M   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40010/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40109   80G  931M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40109
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40109/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40110   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40110
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40110/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40114   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40114
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40114/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40119   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40119
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40119/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40108   80G  930M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40108
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40108/dev
> /var/lib/vz/private/40120   80G  929M   80G   2% /var/lib/vz/root/40120
> none                       1.0G  8.0K  1.0G   1% 
> /var/lib/vz/root/40120/dev
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bruceb444 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Eneko,
>
>     VMs are off and results are - I think it was off before too (I
>     have some CentOS containers that are on which I can't turn off -
>     production!):
>
>     CPU BOGOMIPS:      72530.72
>     REGEX/SECOND:      589160
>     HD SIZE:           94.49 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
>     BUFFERED READS:    100.20 MB/sec
>     AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 11.14 ms
>     FSYNCS/SECOND:     19.79
>     DNS EXT:           74.88 ms
>
>     I am feeling the pain on Windows big time but nothing bad on
>     Containers. *So far we don't have a conclusion if it's the kernel
>     issue, HDD issue, or controller issue right?*
>     *
>     *
>     *
>     *
>     Info asked is below:
>
>     root at hp:~# lspci
>     00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port
>     (rev 13)
>     00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI
>     Express Root Port 1 (rev 13)
>     00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI
>     Express Root Port 3 (rev 13)
>     00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI
>     Express Root Port 7 (rev 13)
>     00:09.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub
>     PCI Express Root Port 9 (rev 13)
>     00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub
>     PCI Express Root Port 10 (rev 13)
>     00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System
>     Management Registers (rev 13)
>     00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and
>     Scratch Pad Registers (rev 13)
>     00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control
>     Status and RAS Registers (rev 13)
>     00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     USB UHCI Controller #4
>     00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     USB2 EHCI Controller #2
>     00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI
>     Express Root Port 1
>     00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI
>     Express Root Port 5
>     00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     USB UHCI Controller #1
>     00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     USB UHCI Controller #2
>     00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     USB UHCI Controller #3
>     00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     USB2 EHCI Controller #1
>     00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
>     00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC
>     Interface Controller
>     00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
>     SATA AHCI Controller
>     02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
>     MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02)
>     05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit
>     Network Connection (rev 01)
>     05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit
>     Network Connection (rev 01)
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Eneko Lacunza
>     <elacunza at binovo.es <mailto:elacunza at binovo.es>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Bruce,
>
>         pveperf is quite bad. From my limited experience, a tipical
>         7200 rpms SATA drive gives 60 fsync/s and >100 MB/sec buffered
>         reads. Average seek time is very bad too (~13ms in 7200 rpm
>         drive). If you had VMs running, please stop them all and rerun
>         the command.
>
>         You shouldn't used this for virtualization unless this problem
>         is fixed (you're already feeling the pain eh??)
>
>         What hard disk controller do you have? ('lspci')
>
>
>         On 23/09/13 16:30, Bruce B wrote:
>>         Eneko,
>>
>>         Thanks for the feedback. It seems that the whole Windows
>>         system is slow. It happens with loading applications too and
>>         loading start menu for example so if I am understanding this
>>         right, viritio drives which are installed after Windows is
>>         installed may not help me a lot?! Please correct me if I am
>>         wrong. Also how can I build a virtio drive to test it?
>>
>>         *Below are results of pveperf. Is this very bad?*
>>
>>         root at hp:~# pveperf
>>         CPU BOGOMIPS:      72530.72
>>         REGEX/SECOND:      583443
>>         HD SIZE:         94.49 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
>>         BUFFERED READS:    61.13 MB/sec
>>         AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 29.30 ms
>>         FSYNCS/SECOND:     9.63
>>         DNS EXT:         70.07 ms
>>
>>         Regards,
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Eneko Lacunza
>>         <elacunza at binovo.es <mailto:elacunza at binovo.es>> wrote:
>>
>>             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
>>>             <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>             <mailto: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
>>>             <mailto: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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