--- Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > In the other problem case, the dstat on the host
> shows only write load
> > of good magnitude, around 16 MB/s. But it is
> writing a whole lot more
> > than what happens on the guest side. In fact, in
> one case, 15 times
> > more (7.5 GB vs. 500 MB). The throughput on the
> guest side is a little
> > better, 1.5 MB/s to 3.0 MB/s depending on the
> drive, but the drive is
> > screaming like mad when this is happening. This
> would look like it is
> > rewriting the same thing over and over again.
Well, have you made sure that for UML the TMP env.var
is set to a tmpfs / ramfs mount point? If not, the
host is writing to the disk the content of the guest's
virtual RAM.
This trick is well explained on many FAQs.
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