[SOLVED] Pegged Disk Active Time in Windows 10 VM

ducs4rs

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I have a couple of Windows 10 VMs and all of a sudden disk Active time goes to 100% and with very little disk transfers. I have tried different virtio settings and nothing changes. I did a forum search and found someone else had the same issue but no resolution. Any ideas? Let me know if you need more information.


win10_vm_disk_activity.jpg
tm_processes.jpg

vm config
Code:
root@pveprod:~# cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/108.conf
agent: 1
audio0: device=ich9-intel-hda,driver=spice
balloon: 2048
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide2;virtio0
cores: 8
efidisk0: vm_images:108/vm-108-disk-0.qcow2,size=128K
hostpci0: 0000:05:11.5,pcie=1
ide2: none,media=cdrom
machine: pc-q35-6.1
memory: 16000
name: greg-idat-t41-w10
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win10
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=95f5b43e-72e0-4d4e-a079-69e06fc71661
sockets: 1
startup: order=7,up=25
vga: qxl
virtio0: vm_images:108/vm-108-disk-1.qcow2,aio=threads,backup=0,cache=none,iothread=1,size=512G
vmgenid: 1e7e55f7-dd38-4685-9d4a-0950a6d3bea8

system info
pveprod_sysinfo.jpg

I have a ZFS mirror pool which is not breathing during this peg

Code:
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           8.59    0.00    1.51    9.45    0.00   80.46

Device            r/s     rMB/s   rrqm/s  %rrqm r_await rareq-sz     w/s     wMB/s   wrqm/s  %wrqm w_await wareq-sz     d/s     dMB/s   drqm/s  %drqm d_await dareq-sz     f/s f_await  aqu-sz  %util
sda              2.67      0.33     0.00   0.00   32.75   128.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.09   9.73
sdb              4.67      0.58     0.00   0.00   36.64   128.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.17  18.53
sde              3.33      0.42     0.00   0.00   14.10   128.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.05   4.93
sdi              3.00      0.38     0.00   0.00   12.56   128.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.04   4.53
sdj              3.33      0.39     0.00   0.00   37.60   119.60    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.13  13.73
sdk              2.67      0.33     0.00   0.00   11.88   128.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.03   3.87

root@pveprod:~# zpool iostat zones 3
              capacity     operations     bandwidth
pool        alloc   free   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
zones       11.4T  10.4T     32    159  4.60M  29.3M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0     91      0  11.5M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0    110      0  13.8M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0     75      0  9.48M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0    119      0  15.0M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      2     81   384K  10.1M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0     52      0  6.57M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0    114      0  14.3M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0     79      0  9.89M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0    127      0  16.0M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0    125      0  15.7M
zones       11.4T  10.4T      0    123  42.6K  15.5M

Code:
root@pveprod:~# zpool status zones
  pool: zones
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 1 days 05:59:48 with 0 errors on Mon Feb 14 06:23:55 2022
remove: Removal of vdev 2 copied 982G in 4h51m, completed on Tue Apr 27 09:38:46 2021
        8.89M memory used for removed device mappings
config:

        NAME                                                           STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        zones                                                          ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0                                                     ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA1EL30R                           ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA1EJPDN                           ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-3                                                     ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD1D5NP                            ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z_Z840EMVD                           ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-5                                                     ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z_Z840CZMZ                           ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z_Z840EVQJ                           ONLINE       0     0     0
        logs
          mirror-8                                                     ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_mSATA_250GB_S248NX0H402948X-part3  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_250GB_mSATA_S1KPNSAF601284M-part1  ONLINE       0     0     0
        cache
          ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_mSATA_250GB_S248NX0H402948X-part4    ONLINE       0     0     0
          ata-Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_250GB_mSATA_S1KPNSAF601284M-part2    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

pastebin link to lshw for pve
 
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This turned out to be a disk HW issue. One of my CACHE disks was bad causing zpool issues. Replaced the CACHE disk and things are running like a champ.

found this by running zpool iostat -v zones 3
 
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