[Spice-devel] spice server performance

Pavel Zhukov pavel at zhukoff.net
Wed Dec 1 22:19:54 PST 2010


Hello,

We test spice perfomance some weeks ago. But it's spice-0.4 (on RHEV). 
You can find report here:
http://www.bureausolomatina.ru/sites/default/files/SPICE%20Benchmark%20-%202010-11-16.pdf

regards, Pavel

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:30:43 +0800 (CST)
  xuzhinong999 <xuzhinong999 at 163.com> wrote:
> Any response on this issue? I know maybe qemu/spiceServer 
>performance has been discussed long
> time ago, but i can only find the latest year's discussion records 
>in spice-devel forum, so
> maybe i missed the previous discussions...
> 
> 1. My qemu/spiceServer process starts up as :
> qemu-spice-bill -boot c -hda /opt/vdisk/xp111.img -m 512 -enable-kvm 
>-soundhw all -vga qxl -net
> nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139 -net 
>tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap111,script=/opt/vdisk/qemu-
> ifup,downscript=/opt/vdisk/qemu-ifdown -spice 
>port=8111,playback-compression=off,image-
> compression=quic,disable-ticketing -usbdevice tablet -daemonize
> 
> are these parameters correct?
> 
> 2. From qemu help, i found this parameter:
> -cpu cpu        select CPU (-cpu ? for list)
> 
> when i check cpu type supported:
> [root at sai build]# qemu-spice-bill -cpu ?
> x86       Opteron_G3
> x86       Opteron_G2
> x86       Opteron_G1
> x86          Nehalem
> x86           Penryn
> x86           Conroe
> x86           [n270]
> x86         [athlon]
> x86       [pentium3]
> x86       [pentium2]
> x86        [pentium]
> x86            [486]
> x86        [coreduo]
> x86          [kvm32]
> x86         [qemu32]
> x86          [kvm64]
> x86       [core2duo]
> x86         [phenom]
> x86         [qemu64]
> 
> I can decide as default, qemu/spiceServer use qemu64 virtual cpu. 
>But the physical cpu i am
> using is Intel E5504, will qemu use cpu to translate between qemu64 
>and the physical cpu? Will
> the 'kvm64' virtual cpu type help?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill
> 
> At 2010-12-01 16:18:31,xuzhinong999 <xuzhinong999 at 163.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, All,
> 
>         qemu/spiceServer process will consume average more than 40% 
>cpu on a Intel E5504
> (a quad-core CPU, so the 40% cpu consumption means 40% of a cpu 
>core), even if i only run
> some common applications on windows XP VM, such as 
>explorer/word/excel etc. And when these
> applications start on windows XP VM, the instant cpu consumption 
>will reach about 100%.
>    Is this spiceServer performance normal? What's your benchmark 
>test result for
> qemu/spiceServer? Is there someway to improve the performance?
>    Thanks.
>    
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
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