Did you try setting unmask irq on on those drives? (-u1 param w/ hdparm) Also u could try setting the nice value of vmware higher so other apps get higher priority (nice -n 16 vmware) and see if that improves the situation. Ofcource IDE is just slow with multi access tasks.. Thats why scsi is still the standard with servers, its designed to be used for multi-app / multi access envirioments. While IDE might have caught up in raw read/write speed, it does not an server architecture make ;-) IDE controllers still lock in these situations, even if different channels are used. Something you could try is to put the vmware ide disk on a different ide controller (promise fasttraq pci cards are quite cheap forinstance, or maybe you could borrow one from someone to test) and see if that helps out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Eric Cuendet" <jec@xxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 16:15 Subject: Machine VERY slow with vmware 4.0 > 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 > > -- > Jean-Eric Cuendet > Riskpro Technologies SA > Av du 14 avril 1b, 1020 Renens Switzerland > Principal: +41 21 637 0110 Fax: +41 21 637 01 11 > Direct: +41 21 637 0123 > E-mail: jean-eric.cuendet@xxxxxxxx > http://www.rptec.ch > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
