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A steady and reliable light source is a basic feature of any light fixture. However, many LED fixtures leave their owners dealing with dimming and flickering issues. To address these issues, we have created an outline with key insights you should know.
A defective connection between the lamp and controls can cause your LED lights to flicker on a dimmer switch. The controls may be out of sync with the lamp or the controls can be too old. In addition, the controls may not be designed in a way that allows them to work with the lamp. In any of these cases, the items will not be in sync.
Sometimes, you can do everything right prior to purchasing a dimmable LED bulb, but it still will not work. In this case, it may be the product itself. There are many cheap yet ineffective LED light bulbs on the market.
Avoiding these defective products requires some research. Look for something that others have tested and that has good reviews. In addition, restrict your purchases to companies with a reputation for producing good products.
Working with a lighting specialist is the best solution for dealing with lighting issues. They have the skills and knowledge necessary to address the issue. They may have even dealt with the same issue in the past and know how to fix it quickly.
LED bulbs are designed to handle specific currents. They will experience problems or stop working altogether when dealing with higher currents. The solution to this problem is to match the bulb to the proper current. This simply involves knowing what current you are dealing with and finding a bulb that suits it.
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This best practice guide will provide advice for making the right choice in your environment. It will recommend or discourage the usage of options depending on your workload. Fixing configuration issues and performing tuning tasks will increase the performance of VM Guest's near to bare metal.
Changing the configuration of the VM Guest or the VM Host Server can lead to data loss or an unstable state. It is really important that you do backups of files, data, images, etc. before making any changes. Without backups you cannot restore the original state after a data loss or a misconfiguration. Do not perform tests or experiments on production systems.
The efficiency of a virtualization environment depends on many factors. This guide provides a reference for helping to make good choices when configuring virtualization in a production environment. Nothing is carved in stone. Hardware, workloads, resource capacity, etc. should all be considered when planning, testing, and deploying your virtualization infra-structure. Testing your virtualized workloads is vital to a successful virtualization implementation.
SUSE strongly recommends using the libvirt framework to configure, manage, and operate VM Host Servers, containers and VM Guest. It offers a single interface (GUI and shell) for all supported virtualization technologies and therefore is easier to use than the hypervisor-specific tools.
We do not recommend using libvirt and hypervisor-specific tools at the same time, because changes done with the hypervisor-specific tools may not be recognized by the libvirt tool set. See Chapter 8, Starting and Stopping libvirtd for more information on libvirt.
Similar to real 64-bit PC hardware, qemu-system-x86_64 supports VM Guests running a 32-bit or a 64-bit operating system. Because qemu-system-x86_64 usually also provides better performance for 32-bit guests, SUSE generally recommends using qemu-system-x86_64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit VM Guests on KVM. Scenarios where qemu-system-i386 is known to perform better are not supported by SUSE.
Xen also uses binaries from the qemu package but prefers qemu-system-i386, which can be used for both 32-bit and 64-bit Xen VM Guests. To maintain compatibility with the upstream Xen Community, SUSE encourages using qemu-system-i386 for Xen VM Guests.
Allocation of resources for VM Guests is a crucial point when administrating virtual machines. When assigning resources to VM Guests, be aware that overcommitting resources may affect the performance of the VM Host Server and the VM Guests. If all VM Guests request all their resources simultaneously, the host needs to be able to provide all of them. If not, the host's performance will be negatively affected and this will in turn also have negative effects on the VM Guest's performance.
Current CPU architectures support larger pages than 4 KB: huge pages. To determine the size of huge pages available on your system (could be 2 MB or 1 GB), check the flags line in the output of /proc/cpuinfo for occurrences of pse and/or pdpe1gb.
The value is written to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages and represents the current number of persistent huge pages in the kernel's huge page pool. Persistent huge pages will be returned to the huge page pool when freed by a task.
Transparent huge pages (THP) provide a way to dynamically allocate huge pages with the khugepaged kernel thread, rather than manually managing their allocation and use. Workloads with contiguous memory access patterns can benefit greatly from THP. A 1000 fold decrease in page faults can be observed when running synthetic workloads with contiguous memory access patterns. Conversely, workloads with sparse memory access patterns (like databases) may perform poorly with THP. In such cases it may be preferable to disable THP by adding the kernel parameter transparent_hugepage=never, rebuild your grub2 configuration, and reboot. Verify if THP is disabled with:
When using the Xen hypervisor, by default a small percentage of system memory is reserved for the hypervisor. All remaining memory is automatically allocated to Domain-0. When virtual machines are created, memory is ballooned out of Domain-0 to provide memory for the virtual machine. This process is called "autoballooning".
For these reasons, we strongly recommend to disable autoballooning and give Domain-0 the memory needed for its workload. Determining Domain-0 memory and vCPU sizing should follow a similar process as any other virtual machine.
Autoballooning is controlled by the tool stack used to manage your Xen installation. For the xl/libxl tool stack, autoballooning is controlled by the autoballoon setting in /etc/xen/xl.conf. For the libvirt+libxl tool stack, autoballooning is controlled by the autoballoon setting in /etc/libvirt/libxl.conf.
The amount of memory initially allocated to Domain-0 is controlled by the Xen hypervisor dom0_mem parameter. For example, to set the initial memory allocation of Domain-0 to 8GB, add dom0_mem=8G to the Xen hypervisor parameters. The dom0_mem parameter can also be used to specify the minimum and maximum memory allocations for Domain-0. For example, to set the initial memory of Domain-0 to 8GB, but allow it to be changed (ballooned) anywhere between 4GB and 16GB, add the following to the Xen hypervisor parameters: dom0_mem=8G,min:4G,max:8G.
Autoballooning is enabled by default since it is extremely difficult to determine a predefined amount of memory required by Domain-0. Memory needed by Domain-0 is heavily dependent on the number of hosted virtual machines and their configuration. Users must ensure Domain-0 has sufficient memory resources to accommodate virtual machine workloads.
When using Xen, we recommend to place the xenstore database on tmpfs. xenstore is used as a control plane by the xm/xend and xl/libxl tool stacks and the front-end and back-end drivers servicing domain I/O devices. The load on xenstore increases linearly as the number of running domains increase. If you anticipate hosting many VM Guest on a Xen host, move the xenstore database onto tmpfs to improve overall performance of the control plane. Mount the /var/lib/xenstored directory on tmpfs:
Kernel Samepage Merging is a kernel feature that allows for lesser memory consumption on the VM Host Server by sharing data VM Guests have in common. The KSM daemon ksmd periodically scans user memory looking for pages of identical content which can be replaced by a single write-protected page. To enable KSM, run:
sleep_millisecs: The number of milliseconds ksmd should sleep before the next scan. A low value will overuse the CPU, consuming CPU time that could be used for other tasks. We recommend a value greater than 1000.
pages_to_scan: The number of present pages to scan before ksmd goes to sleep. A high value will overuse the CPU. We recommend to start with a value of 1000, and then adjust as necessary based on the KSM results observed while testing your deployment.
KSM is a good technique to over-commit host memory when running multiple instances of the same application or VM Guest. When applications and VM Guest are heterogeneous and do not share any common data, it is preferable to disable KSM. In a mixed heterogeneous and homogeneous environment, KSM can be enabled on the host but disabled on a per VM Guest basis. Use virsh edit to disable page sharing of a VM Guest by adding the following to the guest's XML configuration:
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