Suse 9 Server on IBM p520 LPAR/VIOS uses 10% CPU

16 Jan 2006

      Hello,

I am using an p520 with Virtual IO Server 1.2, testing Suse Server 9 
within one partition. I just installed it, no services are being used, 
Linux top says it is 100% idle, but the IBM partition manger (IVM) says 
it is about 10-20% busy. If I use an idle AIX 5.3-03 within an 
partition, this uses just 0-1% CPU.

Another problem I found is disk performance, I use dd from the RAW 
device to /dev/null with a 1024k blocksitz, with Linux gets about 50MB 
per second, using the same disk with an AIX partition this gives me 
about 85MB/sec.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Helmut Tschemernjak