Reduce disk I/O for small reads using memory 7 August 2008·Updated: 14 May 2024·353 words·2 mins Many 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 ramdisk 14 March 2008·Updated: 14 May 2024·130 words·1 min I really dislike qmail.
Hunting down elusive sources of iowait 11 March 2008·Updated: 14 May 2024·160 words·1 min 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 31 January 2008·Updated: 14 May 2024·296 words·2 mins One of my biggest complaints on RHEL 4 is the large resource usage by the version of SpamAssassin that is installed.