[CentOS-virt] SATA vs RAID5 vs VMware
Benjamin Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Fri Sep 25 15:36:28 UTC 2009
Philip Gwyn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have strange behaviour on a server that I can't get a handle on. I have a
> reasonably powerful server running VMware server 1.0.4-56528. It has a RAID5
> build with mdadm on 5 SATA drives. Masses of ram and 2 XEON CPUs. But it stutters.
>
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"
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "0"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "TRUE"
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"
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
restart vmware.
That is how I run my systems.
--
Benjamin Franz
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