kk
thanks
freebsd has broken virtio drivers?
or just non-default?
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
er, We use KVM/QEMU, providing full hardware virtualization, not containers or jails.
from arp site
so freebsd xen paravirt optimizations wouldnt work
raouldlv: right, don't use xen paravirt optimizations, we don't use xen
kvm virtual drivers may work though
Honestly, how much optimization are you hoping to pick up that way? My VPS has always run great with nothing special done to it.
arenlor: my disk i/o under openbsd is slow
16mb/sec
mercutio: How are you measuring it?
# time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=testzero count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 6.509 secs (16108084 bytes/sec)
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=testzero count=100  0.00s user 2.99s system 45% cpu 6.523 total
it still goes ok
it's not laggy slow disk i/o
just not high bw
it's also high cpu
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 30.0462 s, 3.5 MB/s real    0m30.169s user    0m0.012s sys     0m14.133s
wtf
you're way slower
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.484618 s, 216 MB/s real    0m0.542s user    0m0.000s sys     0m0.364s
Those are my two VPS.
wow huge diff
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.695955 s, 151 MB/s real    0m0.758s user    0m0.000s sys     0m0.300s
you should have conv=fdatasync
but openbsd doesn't support it
That is my tower set next to me.
mercutio: They're all debian 6.0
So slow disk speed could just be that you're on a busy box.
 #  time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=testzero count=100 conv=fdatasync
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.289063 s, 363 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=testzero count=100 conv=fdatasync  0.00s user 0.23s system 72% cpu 0.324 total
Although, up_the_irons: WTF with 3.5 MB/s?
that's an ubuntu vm somewhere else
you may not have virtio enabled?
mercutio: I didn't customize anything.
Both the 3.5 MB/s and 216 MB/s are configured the same.
weird
maybe virtio on host not enabled on one
I think it's just a heavy box.
Which makes me that much more worried about its uptime.
there may be a bad disk?
mercutio: He said he ran a check on it the other day and it was running okay.
So there may not be any need to optimize, it could just be that you have someone (or more than one) not being super friendly with disk I/O
'maybe vrtio on host not enabled' -> I'd think you'd know on the guest if it was or not, it should show up as a totally different device in dmesg etc
hi there, been looking around the portal but didn't find any clear direcitons on how to reload my VM if I'd like to do that? is there simple button I Can click to perform that action?
xcat:  as in, reinstall from the cd or something?
yeah, or just an os reload
xcat: email support@arpnetworks.com with your vps uuid and that you would like your vps reset to "factory defaults"
ok, thank you
np
xcat: http://support.arpnetworks.com/kb/vps/re-install-or-change-os may help.  if you want to reinstall with the same OS that you ordered it with,  the cd is already loaded.  if you want a newer version, or different OS..  you have to ask support to change media
http://support.arpnetworks.com/kb/vps/re-install-or-change-os
I figured out my issue though, I didn't know I had the ability VNC into the console
screwed up my root password when typing last night, couldn't get in this morning
thanks for your prompt response, so far so good with the service :)
xcat: you'll love ARP.   the people in this channel are mostly longtime customers.  we wouldn't be here if ARP didn't rock.
thanks :) Yeah I looked around for a while but I read really good reviews about ARP
almost went with rootBSD
not a whole lot of bsd cloud providers out there
at least legit ones, it seems
not a lot of decent vps providers at all :P
what. arp does clouds!?
milki: i do?:)
jdoe: werd:)
to da cloud!
:P