Reduce disk I/O for small reads using memory7 August 2008·Updated: 25 April 2024·353 words·2 minsMany applications that are used on a standard server perform quite a few of small writes to the disk (like MySQL or Apache).
Reduce iowait in Plesk: put qmail’s queue on a ramdisk14 March 2008·Updated: 25 April 2024·130 words·1 minI really dislike qmail.
Hunting down elusive sources of iowait11 March 2008·Updated: 25 April 2024·160 words·1 minA question I’m asked daily is “How can I find out what is generating iowait on my server?
High iowait on RHEL 4 with Plesk and SpamAssassin31 January 2008·Updated: 25 April 2024·296 words·2 minsOne of my biggest complaints on RHEL 4 is the large resource usage by the version of SpamAssassin that is installed.