[Cialug] SLES9 and 3w9500

[Dave Crouse]

Just a note .... SLES 10 pre-release is available.
http://www.novell.com/linux/prerelease.html

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On Sat, June 24, 2006 9:25 pm, Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> Found the issue. Apparently older SLES9 kernels didn't work well
> regarding iowait... I upgraded to SP3 and everything is working great now.
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> Jon
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> D. Joe Anderson wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:31:56AM -0500, jcbailey at code0.net wrote:
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>>> I'm having performance problems with this setup and it seems to be
>>> distro specific. On the same controller (3w9500S-4LP) and system,
>>> under Ubuntu (default install, auto-detected controller), the load
>>> average is about 7 while being beaten with bonnie++ in writing and
>>> about 2-3 while reading. The system remains responsive.
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>>> On SLES9, I'm using the binary driver from 3ware (9.3.0.4). The load
>>> average while using bonnie++ is 16+ and the load average while writing
>>> is 7+.
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>>> Anyone run into this or have any thoughts? Thanks!
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>> Nothing specific, but just by way of general brainstorming, I
>> wonder what the two kernels are, what the modules or built-in drivers
>> are.  Can you run the userland of the one with the kernel and modules of
>> the other (should only take copying the vmlinuz, initrd, and
>> /lib/modules/kernel-foo/ directories into
>> the appropriate places, and setting the boot loader up)?
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