Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-28 Thread David G . Miller
Rainer Traut tr.ml@... writes: Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware updates (not available on SPP) I use this local installation. Problem are the lags and unresponsiveness we are seeing for example when

[CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware updates (not available on SPP) I use this local installation. Problem are the lags and unresponsiveness we are seeing for example when running yum update in the installation

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; You mean flash memory? (And not a conventional spinning disk drive in an external enclosure.) Yikes. It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Most USB flash drives have horrid performance, especially for writes and doubly especially for random writes. For a live linux distro, I would recommend a Sandisk Extreme or anything from Patriot. Rainer Traut wrote the following on 2/27/2014 6:17 AM: Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB