On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:19:21 -0500 (CDT)
Tim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> The physical hardware of the system is in perfect working order, with no 
> problems handling the I/O load. Is it possible this use case (large amounts 
> of very small files) is not handled correctly by the virtualization storage 
> layer? At this time I'm using the 'RAW' file format, presented as an IDE disk 
> to the VM.
> 
Have you tried switching disk bus from IDE to virtio or even SATA? A
lot of small files on IDE (no NCQ) would stretch the IDE bus to its
limits.

You should try virtio since this will increase performance immediately
with 15-50% and (I assume SATA or SAS disks on the host providing
storage) will add NCQ since virtio gives direct access to the disk bus.

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