On 6/9/2011 12:02 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
disks are often swamped by "two things happening at once"... backups migrating a VM database upgrades .rrd average updates
Unfortunately, the VMs are public facing and the offending one has got a relatively popular Wordpress blog as well as relatively high email traffic. So it's likely the result of those two things happening at once.
Don't forget the VM's don't isolate contention for the physical disk heads on the host device(s). They just sort of hide your ability to see where that time goes.