On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
My wife complains that when we run windows inside virtualbox that it's slow. I upgraded her ram to not much effect.<br>
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Does anyone have comments on upgrading to an SSD drive under linux? Looks like 64gigs are now down around $150. Lots of chatter about boot up times, but I don't care about that. Do they make that much difference in speed for general work?<br>
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I've also read something about 'trim' which apparently linux doesn't have - should one care?<br></blockquote></div><br>Diagnosis before treatment. Otherwise interesting things happen.<br><br>While an SSD will speed up I/O for sure, make sure that your bottleneck<br>
is indeed I/O before jumping to the conclusion that and SSD will help.<br><br>Do you see the disk light flicker when she feels the VM is slow? If so, there<br>is a chance<br><br>You can use iotop to see which process is eating up I/O. If you don't have<br>
that then vmstat will tell you that there is indeed heavy I/O and if it is read<br>or write.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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