Rainer Traut <tr.ml at ...> writes: > > Hi, > > I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; > It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware updates (not available on > SPP) I use this local installation. > > Problem are the lags and unresponsiveness we are seeing for example when > running yum update in the installation phase. The whole system stalls > but there is no io in vmstat. <SNIP> > I've been running various versions of Fedora from a USB hard drive for several years and haven't seen anything like what you describe. I'm using a "real" 400GB Western Digital hard drive instead of flash or SSD. Given my experience I'd bet that the lags you're seeing are due to the flash drive. Cheers, Dave