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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by bravetraveler on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:56PM (#39448073)
The storage driver may have more impact on VBox. You can get very impressive results with 'virtio' on KVM
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @07:15PM (#39448690)
Yeah I've yet to try that. I know I get a similar lack of performance with Bhyve (FreeBSD) using VirtIO, so it's not a given it's fast.

I have no idea how AWS run their VMs, was just saying a slow storage driver could give such results.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by bravetraveler on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @08:24PM (#39449157)
> just saying a slow storage driver could give such results

Oh, absolutely - not to contest that! There's a whole lot of academia on 'para-virtualized' and so on in this light.

That's interesting to hear about FreeBSD; basically all of my experience has been with Linux/Windows.

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