Reduce disk I/O for small reads using memory
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Many applications that are used on a standard server perform quite a few of small writes to the disk (like MySQL or Apache).
Iowait
2008
Hunting down elusive sources of iowait
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A 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 SpamAssassin
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One of my biggest complaints on RHEL 4 is the large resource usage by the version of SpamAssassin that is installed.