-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 11:16am, Mark Watts wrote > > > Basically anything involving I/O is causing the system to crawl. > > I can reliably reproduce this by doing: > > > > mke2fs -j /dev/sda7 > > > > Where sda7 is a 600GB partition. > > > > Basically the system load goes orbital and responsivness goes out the > > window. gkrellm only shows ~1MB/sec of disk activity and the processors > > (Dual Opteron) are twiddling their thumbs (top shows 100% 'wa' state for > > both processors), yet I can hardly do anything with any open > > applications. > > > > Kernel is a 2.6.8rc1 kernel.org job. > > Make sure that your driver and firmware versions match (check the 3ware > site). Also, have you tried other FSs? I get *very* good performance out > of 7500-8s using XFS on 2.4 (and hardware RAID5+software RAID0). I > haven't tried 2.6 yet. I'm running the latest firmware from www.3ware.com (FE8S 1.05.00.068) Driver is v1.26.00.039 from kernel 2.6.8rc1 Obviously these aren't the same, but I can only see drivers for RedHat or generic 2.4 kernels on the 3ware site, not 2.6.x Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services group GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCkwJBn4EFUVUIO0RAn4uAKDfFSFhbINbNzy64XJHfcqE3ZxrZwCfWhrE r9pxnUC81Uwdm3OCc8JzPy8= =aEJ4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
