> I should add that the target directories included static files unrelated > to Tomcat, or anything running in that container.
Was Tomcat doing intensive I/O? Reading/writing files at high frequency, or reading/updating filesystem metadata? Bad I/O performance can come about due to disk head thrashing, where two processes are fighting for access and causing the disk head to perform seeks a great deal. The ultimate throughput is much much slower than having one process do its thing, followed by the other one doing its thing after the first has finished. Just a thought. tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
