Hi,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 21:18, Philip Gwyn wrote:
> The problem seems like a disk problem. I grow to suspect that SATA isn't
> ready
> for the big time. I also grow to dislike RAID5.
>
> Questions :
> - Anyone have a clue or other on how to track down my bottle neck?
You can use the comma
Philip Gwyn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have strange behaviour on a server that I can't get a handle on. I have a
> reasonably powerful server running VMware server 1.0.4-56528. It has a RAID5
> build with mdadm on 5 SATA drives. Masses of ram and 2 XEON CPUs. But it
> stutters.
>
This will dou
Benjamin Franz wrote:
> This will double your memory usage. But it should fix your I/O.
>
> Take a look at http://vmfaq.com/?View=entry&EntryID=25
>
> In particular, putting your temporary directory in a ramdisk will
> improve your I/O profile immensely.
>
> Edit /etc/vmware/config and add:
>
> tm
Benjamin Franz wrote:
> And I just learned something new. According to
> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105144;jsessionid=DE9B4FFB861971525BEDBD8984F6A670?start=15&tstart=0
>
> if you use /dev/shm for your tmpDirectory you don't pay the 'double the
> memory' penalty. I am testing it now.
