I'm really not certain, but I would guess other processes would start hogging the cpu because their writes are being serialized with bulk writes by the guest?
It seems some filesystems (XFS, ext3?) should be immune to this, so if you have a spare partition then you could try using a different underlying filesystem for the guest backing file. An LVM would also work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/973536 Title: kvm brings Oneiric host to a grinding halt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/973536/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
