Virtual Machine with Database workload has high iowait and load averages

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Issue

  • Migrated a Virtual Machine from vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization, the VM now has considerable higher load averages.
  • Database running in KVM has high load average and disk iowait

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9
  • KVM Virtualization

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