We have a machine which temporarily got 98% full and the boot time of a KVM windows server has gotten quite extreme (minutes on the black part of the boot alone). Apart from over-allocating, we guess it might have to do with fragmentation of the underlying C drive (just a hunch due to the number of writes on C and the fact that overall fragmentation was temporarily >78%) since another win machine still booted up quite quickly.
If a kvm disk were just a file then I could just make a copy of the C drive (I have enough space now) into a new file which should (in theory) just create new aligned blocks and once I delete the old file it should be defragmented mostly. Is this correct ? And if so, kvm disks are mounted as raw devices, so I guess my idea wont work anyway. Is there an alternative or is this a fools errant ? Cheers, matthias ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
