You should post your question on one of the VMware news groups for Linux. See http://www.vmware.com/support/using/newsgroups.html for the list. --- Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@xxxxxxx Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 >>>>> "JC" == Jean-Eric Cuendet <jec@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >>> 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? >>> >> 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... >> > Running hdparm shows me that hda + hdc are using DMA and IO is about 45 > Mb/sec > The machine is a 2x Xeon processor using ServerWorks chipset which seems > to be well supported by Linux. > Don't know why it's so slow.... > -jec > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
