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On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:46, Sebastien Arnaud wrote: |
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> Gentoo is currently running on one of those 6350 and I haven't' had too |
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> much trouble setting up (apart from the lack of scsi raid support of |
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> the smp kernel on the 1.4 livecd). Anyway, I would like to know what |
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> type of tools any of you might have used to benchmark/stress test |
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> properly your Gentoo servers. The goal being to try to optimize as much |
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> as possible performance while monitoring stability of the system under |
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> high level of stress. |
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I've done Gentoo on a couple of Dell SMP hardware RAID systems: |
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* 2550 (dual P-III, aacraid driver) |
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* 2300 (dual P-II, megaraid driver) |
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* 4400 (dual P-III, aacraid driver) |
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All of these systems currently run development-sources-2.6.0_beta11. On |
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the 2550, I previously ran gs-sources for a long while; I think this was |
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due to the aacraid support not working so well in vanilla sources (as of |
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2.4.20). In particular, before switching to to development-sources, I |
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gave wolk-sources a try, and I think I got a kernel panic (it works well |
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on some uniprocessor machines, though). 2.6.0-test* has never given me a |
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bit of trouble on servers or my primary work desktop. These are not |
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primary production servers, and they are not heavily loaded for the most |
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part, but to test them initially for stability I did emerge -e world |
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with MAKE_OPTS=-j4. No problems. I think 2.6.0-test1 was a lot more |
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stable than 2,4.0, and it may be more stable than, say, 2.4.18. However, |
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it is still technically pre-release, but that may be ok for your |
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situation. |
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(Incidentally, pentium3-1.4-20030911-c1.iso did NOT work with setting up |
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one of these machines. It would lock up when probing the aacraid driver, |
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and I couldn't use the disk with noscsi, because it had a SCSI CD-ROM |
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drive. I had to go back to the 1.4-RC4 live CD. You need to use doscsi |
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for the live CD boot options to get the SCSI support to work.) |
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Andy Dustman <adustman@×××××××××.edu> |
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Office of Information Technology, Terry College of Business, UGA |
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