Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:21:36 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: forcing a Virtbox to flush its cache on demand or more frequently Message-ID: <53CD21F0.7080401@sentex.net>
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I have been experimenting with HAST and virtbox to have failover between servers and ran into a problem with caching. I am guessing in order to prevent every little guest write from writing out to the host's disks, the hypervisor waits for some period of time to write things out. However, this delay can be upwards of hours! On a normally busy box this is not an issue, but for a guest OS that does infrequent (but important) writes, the delay is much too long. I have already set --hostiocache off, but it does not seem to make a difference. If I set a process in the guest to do something like dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/junk bs=1024k count=5 that seems sufficient to trigger a write to the hypervisor's disk, but this is from limited testing only. Is there a better way to do it ? ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/
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