Subject: Re: [vserver] tcpdump, top, mpstat, iostat
From: Andrej van der Zee <andrejvanderzee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:46:27 +0900

 Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:46:27 +0900
Hi,

Thank you for your clear answers.

> 
>> In case of IO device stats, suppose every guest has its own 
>> physical device, running iostat on the host for one specific 
>> device would isolate usage for the guest that it owns. 
>> Is this correct?
> 
> yes, but would be a waste of resources (to have a
> separate device for each guest).

Yes true, but in terms of performance i would rather not have to guests competing for
one disk head in particular for disk intensive apps such as a database server.

> 
Thank you, cant wait to get my hands in the mud!

Cheers,