Sleep/Resume only reads writes at 20MB/Sec

I am running Parallels 5 under OSX with a Windows 7x64 guest and am not experiencing this problem. When I save the ram image to disk it saves the entire thing in about 1 second and starting up takes about 1.5 seconds. This is on a MBP with dual SSD's running raid. Is this a problem just under version 6?
 
You are experiencing the problem, it just looks like you are not! SSD disks may be fast but they are not that fast!

Before you sleep the VM, load up Activity Monitor and choose disk activity.

Then sleep your VM, you will then see the disk write speed.

It looks like it is saving in a second but it is not, the window disappears and the saving is done in the background.

The fix mentioned in the post is implemented in the new version so adding the boot flags really speeds it up now.

Cheers

Andy
 
I just tried that experiment you suggested, and the system monitor shows a peak write speed of 521.1 MB/s and all write activity ceases after about two seconds.
 
Interesting, I had the problem with 5 but it looks like you don't!

So your vm is 2GB?

Can you try with a 6GB one?

Thanks

Andy
 
Boot flag

My last post was unclear, I meant to ask if the boot flag is enabled by default. As an IT organization do we need to tell our Parallels users that they should use this flag or can we assume the latest binaries of Parallels enable the full write speed of the disk by default?

Many thanks to the devs that worked on this and the people that made it happen.

Greg
 
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