[Bug 741887] Re: virsh snapshot-create too slow (kvm, qcow2, savevm)

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** Attachment added: "used virsh domain XML definition"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741887/+attachment/1937063/+files/vm.xml

** Description changed:

  Action
  ======
  # time virsh snapshot-create 1
  
  * Taking snapshot of a running KVM virtual machine
  
  Result
  ======
  Domain snapshot 1300983161 created
  real    4m46.994s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.010s
  
  Expected result
  ===============
  * Snapshot taken after few seconds instead of minutes.
  
  Environment
  ===========
  * Ubuntu Natty Narwhal upgraded from Lucid and Meerkat, fully updated.
  
  * Stock natty packages of libvirt and qemu installed (libvirt-bin
  0.8.8-1ubuntu5; libvirt0 0.8.8-1ubuntu5; qemu-common 0.14.0+noroms-
  0ubuntu3; qemu-kvm 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu3).
  
  * Virtual machine disk format is qcow2 (debian 5 installed)
  image: /storage/debian.qcow2
  file format: qcow2
  virtual size: 10G (10737418240 bytes)
  disk size: 1.2G
  cluster_size: 65536
  Snapshot list:
  ID        TAG                 VM SIZE                DATE       VM CLOCK
  1         snap01                  48M 2011-03-24 09:46:33   00:00:58.899
  2         1300979368              58M 2011-03-24 11:09:28   00:01:03.589
  3         1300983161              57M 2011-03-24 12:12:41   00:00:51.905
  
  * qcow2 disk is stored on ext4 filesystem, without RAID or LVM or any
  special setup.
  
  * running guest VM takes about 40M RAM from inside, from outside 576M
  are given to that machine
  
  * host has fast dual-core pentium cpu with virtualization support,
  around 8G of RAM and 7200rpm harddrive (dd from urandom to file gives
  about 20M/s)
  
  * running processes: sshd, atd (empty), crond (empty), libvirtd, tmux,
  bash, rsyslogd, upstart-socket-bridge, udevd, dnsmasq, iotop (python)
  
  * networking is done by bridging and bonding
  
  
  Detail description
  ==================
  
  * Under root, command 'virsh create-snapshot 1' is issued on booted and
  running KVM machine with debian inside.
  
  * After about four minutes, the process is done.
  
  * 'iotop' shows two 'kvm' processes reading/writing to disk. First one
  has IO around 1500 K/s, second one has around 400 K/s. That takes about
  three minutes. Then first process grabs about 3 M/s of IO and suddenly
  dissapears (1-2 sec). Then second process does about 7.5 M/s of IO for
  around a 1-2 minutes.
  
  * Snapshot is successfuly created and is usable for reverting or
  extracting.
  
  * Pretty much the same behaviour occurs when command 'savevm' is issued
- directly from qemu monitor, without using
- libvirf44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670t at all (actually, virsh
- snapshot-create just calls 'savevm' to the monitor socket).
+ directly from qemu monitor, without using libvirt at all (actually,
+ virsh snapshot-create just calls 'savevm' to the monitor socket).
  
  * This behaviour was observed on lucid, meerkat, natty and even with git
  version of libvirt (f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670). Also
  slowsave packages from
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/524447 gave this
  issue.
  
  
  Thank you for helping to solve this issue!
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: libvirt-bin 0.8.8-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-server 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Mar 24 12:19:41 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: libvirt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Tags added: kvm libvirt qcow2 qemu savevm snapshot virsh
** Tags removed: apport-bug

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Title:
  virsh snapshot-create too slow (kvm, qcow2, savevm)