Disk IO causing high load on Xen/CentOS guest
- by Peter Lindqvist
I'm having serious issues with a xen based server, this is on the guest partition. It's a paravirtualized CentOS 5.5.
The following numbers are taken from top while copying a large file over the network.
If i copy the file another time the speed decreases in relation to load average. So the second time it's half the speed of the first time.
It…