> I have a suggestion that would help alleviate the read and write downsides to > this. > > Create a memory buffer where the reads/writes from the VM are placed. > When buffer is over a certain percentage, stop the backup read operations and > flush the buffer. > The VM can perform IO up to the limit of the memory buffer with little loss in > performance.
That is how it works already. Anyways, I will try to upgrade KVM to 1.7 first (many backup related changes). We can then test again and try to optimize further. _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel