I have a problem I''d like to get some input on. Here''s my setup: 2x4 core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5320 @ 1.86GHz 16GB Memory 4x Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 160-GB Hard Drive 4port 3ware 9550SXU-4LP, with the 4 drives in 2 Raid1 mirrors. Dom-0 Centos 5.1 x86_64 kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen I installed 32 identical "bare metals" Centos 5.1 x86_64 instances. I put a php script that simply calculates pi to a certain degree of accuracy, and adjusted it so it took about .4 seconds to run on one of the Dom-Us. Then from another server, I am using the ''ab'' command from apache to benchmark performance on the 32 servers simultaniously. Here''s an example of the command I am running: ab -n 20 -c 20 http://192.168.1.201/pi.php & I loop this 32 times, once for each server. It''s right around a concurrency of 20, and a count of anything higher, when I start getting time outs from ''ab''. apr_poll: The timeout specified has expired (70007) Out of the batch of 32, I will invariably get between 3 and 16 that return this error. If I lower the concurrency to 19, I''ll get between 0 and 5 time outs. 18 and below, I don''t get any failures. Over 20, I the number of servers that time out do increase, but very slowly. I''m simply trying to find the threshold or cap that I am hitting so I can give a suggestion on how to monitor and manage the highest number of virtual machines possible. What I''ve tried looking for is a correlation between when the time out occurs, and the following list of indicators on both the Dom-0 as well as all the Dom-Us. Interrupts from vmstat Context Switches from vmstat CPU usage from vmstat/top/xentop apache connections from the server-status module load average I would prefer to be able to track this sort of behavior from Dom-0. I have test results from running various different combinations of virtual machines, and concurrency levels from ab, but havn''t found the underlying cause yet. Any help or pointers on what else to look for would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users