IO performance issues with KVM guest

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • KVM guest hangs when creating 30GB Oracle tablespace but not 1GB
  • Problem appears to be with writing large amounts of I/O

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • KVM
  • virtio network and block device drivers

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