Any tips/suggestions to improve disk performance/response time? (or general performance)

zenowl77

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mostly it is really good, but it is a little slow here and there especially under load, that is where it becomes the most noticeable very quickly, access time tends to get slow and laggy.

benchmarks are a bit degraded from expected speeds, for example my 10TB HGST Enterprise drive seems to get about 40-50% throughput (100-120mb/s at the most where as host can see 220-250) with access times averaging up to 30-70ms inside the VM and both NVME and HDD can end up at 500-600ms response time under load.

NVME is LVM, 10TB is XFS (tried ZFS but it was much slower, used a lot of ram and seemed overkill on a single disk), both set to no cache, IO thread, Async IO: Threads for VM, using VirtIO SCSI controller, only one VM and 2 LXCs running. Guest is windows 10 Pro 22H2 Workstation

i am mostly playing around with AI text/image generation, video editing/conversion, gaming here and there and other fairly demanding things in the main VM so high access time becomes pretty noticeable rather quickly.

any tips, suggestions or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. even little things to give a slight boost/edge in any way. (even possibly any cheap hardware i can add)

hugepages enabled, vGPU enabled,

Code:
hardware:
CPU: i7-7820X
RAM: 96GB DDR4
mobo: Gigabyte X299 UD4
NVME: WD Blue SN550 1TB
HDD: 2x HGST Ultrastar He10 (huh721010ale604) 10TB 7200rpm 1x 12TB version
GPU (1): GTX 1060 3GB 
GPU (2): intel Arc A310 4GB
GPU (3): Tesla P4 8GB
 
The first problem might be that you talked to less about your configurations which you done or what you are running exactly to understand to give you a response to.
 

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