On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:43:12 +0400 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> 19.04.2011 06:22, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > [] > > XP is just god-awful slow, but admittedly it's been a while since > > I've used windows, so maybe I'm just spoiled now. It's not CPU > > because not even one core is fully utilized on the workstation, so > > perhaps it's the file system layer that's the problem. > > > > I don't remember XP being this painful before, but admittedly I > > don't use it often enough to really say. > > Sounds like qcow[2] with a default cache mode (writethrough). > Try specifying different cache mode (none or writeback). Yes, that was the problem. Thank you. Any chance of changing the default cache mode for debian? -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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