> I'm surprised not to see any other posts on this subject. Maybe there's
> something peculiar about my setup that caused the dreadful write
> performance & tuned-adm happened to fix it. This problem has been a
> real headache and I'm extremely grateful to Philip Durbin and jimi_c for
> brin
On a 32bit Windows 2008 Server guest VM on a CentOS 5 host, iometer
reported a disk write speed of 37MB/s
The same VM on a CentOS 6 host reported 0.3MB/s. i.e. The VM was unusable.
Write performance in a CentOS 6 VM was also much worse, but it was usable.
(See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail