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 VirtualPC on NTFS > on WindowsXP on laptops of our sales team.
As this is only for demo purposes, you might consider turning fsync off, although I have no idea if it would have any effect on your setup. gnari ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster