[ale] VMWare and disk usage?

[Robert L. Harris]

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I don't think so, we had this issue before we moved the image to the NFS
 and had it on a local SATA drive.  Wouldn't the cache be in swap though?


Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:50 -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>> Wierd one here...
>>
>> VMWare server.  Linux gutsy server.  VMWare guest images are actually
>> located on an NFS filesystem shared from a NAS server.  The Linux host
>> though is constantly nailing out it's disk IO.
>>
>> I thought it might be swap except swap is /dev/sda5.  "iostat -c -d -p
>> 2" though shows all the IO is on /dev/sda1, the root partition.  I've
>> run a "find . -mtime -1 -ls" and I'm not finding anything growing
>> rapidly or quickly.  I thought it might be process accounting but I
>> don't believe that's turned on by default.  The only thing I see very
>> active on the system is the vmware-server but again, it's not really
>> supposed to be writing anything to / anyway.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> NFS caching?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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