[PVE-User] Very slow server (RAW IDE discs and KVM)

[Frédéric Massot]

Le 11/08/2011 14:08, Erik van Ast a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I removed the machines that were creating problems and I also deleted
> the backup job. The system is still very slow when creating a new VM,
> but I still can't figure out why.
>
[...]
>
> When creating a new 2003 machine (102) which is "installing devices"
> at the moment of this screencapture. Installing devices is normally
> not very intensive to do, but the disc has been between 90-99% all
> the time when installing this new machine : proxmox:~# atop ATOP -
> proxmox            2011/08/11  13:52:01               10 seconds
> elapsed PRC | sys   0.35s | user   0.83s | #proc    133 | #zombie
> 0 | #exit      0 | CPU | sys      2% | user      4% | irq       0% |
> idle    274% | wait    121% |


In my opinion, the value of wait indicates that your storage system is 
too slow. What is your storage system (Disk SAS, SATA, RAID, NAS...) ?



Regards.
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