Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >>> If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors >>> with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is >>> something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata >>> controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host. If the host system >>> is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the former >>> (host controller or mdadm). >> >> The disks look good so far ... > > Just to bump this one up again ... > > Hard disks OK, ran long smart-tests, completely ok. > > Still that high io-load from kdmflush.
No change since then. What do you guys use? RAID1, RAID0 ?? LVM? Specific filesystems? I could also transfer it to another box using NFSv4 ... but that wasn't much difference back then. I would like to hear your thoughts, thanks, Stefan