Re: [PERFORM] Tips for a system with _extremely_ slow IO?

2004-12-21 Thread Steve Atkins
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:51:12PM -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: Any advice for settings for extremely IO constrained systems? A demo I've set up for sales seems to be spending much of it's time in disk wait states. The particular system I'm working with is: Ext3 on Debian inside

Re: [PERFORM] Tips for a system with _extremely_ slow IO?

2004-12-21 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:51 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: Any advice for settings for extremely IO constrained systems? A demo I've set up for sales seems to be spending much of it's time in disk wait states. The particular system I'm working with is: Ext3 on Debian inside Microsoft

Re: [PERFORM] Tips for a system with _extremely_ slow IO?

2004-12-21 Thread Merlin Moncure
A demo I've set up for sales seems to be spending much of it's time in disk wait states. The particular system I'm working with is: Ext3 on Debian inside Microsoft VirtualPC on NTFS on WindowsXP on laptops of our sales team. As this is only for demo purposes, you might

[PERFORM] Tips for a system with _extremely_ slow IO?

2004-12-20 Thread Ron Mayer
Any advice for settings for extremely IO constrained systems? A demo I've set up for sales seems to be spending much of it's time in disk wait states. The particular system I'm working with is: Ext3 on Debian inside Microsoft VirtualPC on NTFS on WindowsXP on laptops of our sales team.