[Xen-users] Xen Performance

Amir Maqbool Ahmed
Sun, 24 May 2009 10:12:23 -0000

Hi

I am a student at the University College of Oslo and have in one experiment
tried to test the performance of Xenolinux compared to Native linux on Debian
lenny
2.6.26-2 kernel.

bonnie++ the disk IO bechmark program was used among other tests like cpu
intensive scripts.
The goal is to prove the statement (Once again) that Xen adds only an overhead
of maximum 8%.

The Results of bonnie++ have been surprizing and I want to explain them.
It shows that for some types of Disk IO, like sequential delete and random
create
Xen performs faster than native linux. A full comparison chart is attached as a
pdf.
The test are run first from native linux than both from Dom0 and a DomU with the
same results.

Can you please help me understand these results, How can Xenolinux perform
faster
although only for some types of operations, then native linux?

Plese forgive me If Im missing something completely obvious.
If you need any further info. please just send me an email and it will be
provided.

Hope to hear from you soon

Amir Ahmed