Stephen Toub Download the Code Sample Asynchronous programming has long been the realm of only the most skilled and masochistic of developers-those with the time, inclination and mental capacity to reason about callback after callback of non-linear c…
In previous posts on vm.swappiness and using RAM disks we talked about how the memory on a Linux guest is used for the OS itself (the kernel, buffers, etc.), applications, and also for file cache. File caching is an important performance improvement,…
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A conventional virtual-machine monitor (VMM) typically runs on a computer and presents to other software the abstraction of one or more virtual machines. Each virtual machine may function as a self-contained platform, runn…
BACKGROUND Generally, the concept of virtualization in information processing systems allows multiple instances of one or more operating systems (each, an "OS") to run on a single information processing system, even though each OS is designed to…
In one embodiment, a method includes transitioning control to a virtual machine (VM) from a virtual machine monitor (VMM), determining that a VMM timer indicator is set to an enabling value, and identifying a VMM timer value configured by the VMM. Th…
https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-caching-performance-vm-dirty_ratio/ Better Linux Disk Caching & Performance with vm.dirty_ratio & vm.dirty_background_ratio Bob Plankers December 22, 2013 Best Practices, Cloud, System Administ…
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj248719.aspx This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that you can adjust to improve the performance and energy efficiency of the Windows Server 2012 operating system. It…
BACKGROUND INFORMATION An embodiment of the present invention relates generally to virtualization platforms and, more specifically, to a system and method to run components of a virtual machine monitor at a reduced privilege level. Various mechanisms…
