On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:13:21AM +0000, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Good point. I'm doing asset precompilation in this Ruby on Rails app > - a process that should only take a couple of minutes if not seconds, > but ends up taking over 1 hour on my VPS. I asked around and it seems > to be a very I/O intensive process.
> So what are my options? Demand better services from my ISP or stop > using VPS altogether? one thing you can try is disabling mpbios and, if you don't need usb, uhci in the kernel. I've only seen this make a diffence on i386 and it may be specific to some versions of qemu. # config -o /bsd -e /bsd ukc> disable mpbios ukc> disable uhci ukc> quit then reboot. anyway, this is just a guess. you might get some better advice if you provide more info, like the output of dmesg. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.