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RE: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
- From: "Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:53:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200401251453147.SM00164@zunidual>
If you mean this readme: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel/README
No, I just rpm installed the kernel and rebooted. Excuse the lack of
experience, some questions:
1. Where does one find these updated rpms? I found
mkinitrd-1.0-110.x86_64.rpm, but can't find aaa_base or modutils.
2. after those modules are installed is it just rpm -Uvh kernel.rpm?
When I ran it the first time it updated the bootloader itself. Again excuse
the basic questions, but this is a first for me.
Cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:34 PM
To: Jason Clark
Cc: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
"Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Yep, I gave kernel-smp-26-2.6.1-5.x86_64.rpm a try and got a kernel mode
> panic, something about the file system. I'm using an lsi logic 320-2
With the exact message, we might be able to help. I hope you set up
the modules according to the README.
> megaraid controller, suse is installed on a resier file system on an array
> off the lsi logic.
And that lsi logic is loaded correctly?
Andreas
> Cheers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:04 PM
> To: Jason Clark
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
>
> "Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Are there any 2.6 kernels available for suse 9, pre-built? Haven't had a
>> whole lot of luck building one.
>
> Yes, there are - in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel
>
> Andreas
>> Cheers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:37 AM
>> To: Jason Clark
>> Cc: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
>>
>> "Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> I've been playing around with Suse 9 AMD64 for the past few days, trying
>>> some canned benchmarks and one that we've constructed. So far, I'm not
>>> seeing any scaling from a dual opteron to a quad opteron on suse 9.
Most
>> of
>>> the tests I've tried are based off of mysql. During the quad cpu tests
>> each
>>> cpu was averaging at least 90%, same as the dual cpu tests. Is the 2.4
>>> kernel ok for quad opterons, or is 2.6 required?
>>
>> The kernel is fine for 4 ways and it scales with our experiments.
>>
>> The 2.6 kernel is far less locks than 2.4 so depending on your tests,
>> updating might make a difference.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A side issue, for some reason you cannot install the rpm binaries of
> mysql
>>> 4.0.17 without getting a segmentation fault. So all of the mysql
testing
>>
>> Please tell that to those that did the rpms...
>>
>>> was done on 4.0.15, included with suse 9.
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
No, I just rpm installed the kernel and rebooted. Excuse the lack of
experience, some questions:
1. Where does one find these updated rpms? I found
mkinitrd-1.0-110.x86_64.rpm, but can't find aaa_base or modutils.
2. after those modules are installed is it just rpm -Uvh kernel.rpm?
When I ran it the first time it updated the bootloader itself. Again excuse
the basic questions, but this is a first for me.
Cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:34 PM
To: Jason Clark
Cc: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
"Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Yep, I gave kernel-smp-26-2.6.1-5.x86_64.rpm a try and got a kernel mode
> panic, something about the file system. I'm using an lsi logic 320-2
With the exact message, we might be able to help. I hope you set up
the modules according to the README.
> megaraid controller, suse is installed on a resier file system on an array
> off the lsi logic.
And that lsi logic is loaded correctly?
Andreas
> Cheers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:04 PM
> To: Jason Clark
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
>
> "Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Are there any 2.6 kernels available for suse 9, pre-built? Haven't had a
>> whole lot of luck building one.
>
> Yes, there are - in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel
>
> Andreas
>> Cheers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:37 AM
>> To: Jason Clark
>> Cc: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
>>
>> "Jason Clark" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> I've been playing around with Suse 9 AMD64 for the past few days, trying
>>> some canned benchmarks and one that we've constructed. So far, I'm not
>>> seeing any scaling from a dual opteron to a quad opteron on suse 9.
Most
>> of
>>> the tests I've tried are based off of mysql. During the quad cpu tests
>> each
>>> cpu was averaging at least 90%, same as the dual cpu tests. Is the 2.4
>>> kernel ok for quad opterons, or is 2.6 required?
>>
>> The kernel is fine for 4 ways and it scales with our experiments.
>>
>> The 2.6 kernel is far less locks than 2.4 so depending on your tests,
>> updating might make a difference.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A side issue, for some reason you cannot install the rpm binaries of
> mysql
>>> 4.0.17 without getting a segmentation fault. So all of the mysql
testing
>>
>> Please tell that to those that did the rpms...
>>
>>> was done on 4.0.15, included with suse 9.
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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