On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 16:15, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > Hi, > I have a Dell Precision 450 with 2x xeon 2.4GHz. A fast machine! > I have RH9 and use vmware 4.0 with win2k in it. > As soon as vmware makes a lot of disk access, all the machine becomes > VERY slow, mozilla can take up to 3-6 seconds just to show a window, and > changing desktops takes also 3-6 seconds.... > If I have compute intensive processes in vmware, nothing special > happens, things are well. But is a process makes a lot of disk io, like > a link of our big applcation in MsDev6, ALL the machine becomes very slow! > I have 2 IDE disks, each on a different bus (hda on IDE0 is for RH9 and > hdc on IDE1 is for vmware). > I suspect a diskio problem, but with what exactly? > Anyone has experienced same problems? > Thanks. > -jec Check the drives with: /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdx (where x = a or c), especially if the using_dma flag is on. If your motherboard is too new it could be the ide controller is operating in pio mode which slows a system down during disk access... -- Klaasjan Brand <kjb@xxxxxx>
