Benjamin Franz wrote:
This will double your memory usage. But it should fix your I/O.
Take a look at http://vmfaq.com/?View=entry&EntryID=25
In particular, putting your temporary directory in a ramdisk will improve your I/O profile immensely.
Edit /etc/vmware/config and add:
tmpDirectory = "/tmp/vmware" Edit /etc/fstab and add
tmpfs /tmp/vmware tmpfs defaults,size=100% 0 0
and edit /tmp/cron.daily/tmpwatch and add '-x /tmp/vmware' to the tmpwatch command line for /tmp.
make your mount point for /tmp/vmware and mount /tmp/vmware
And I just learned something new. According to http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105144;jsessionid=DE9B4FFB861971525BEDB... if you use /dev/shm for your tmpDirectory you don't pay the 'double the memory' penalty. I am testing it now.