I would have loved to do more in depth measurement, but I couldn't get to any disk stats under /proc. Even iostat was crippled. I'm also not sure the distincti

I would have loved to do more in depth measurement, but I couldn't get to any disk stats under /proc. Even iostat was crippled. I'm also not sure the distinction was that important in that case. With their VPS implementation there were no knobs I could turn. The root cause of the problem had to be on their side of the fence. "Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with axe"