-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 2:43 am, Ajay Mulwani wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:58:12 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 8:49 pm, Ajay Mulwani wrote: > > > Yes, but be sure RHEL 2.1's performance is just too bad on SATA > > > drives. FYI: RHEL 2.1 is not free. If you are looking for freewares > > > RH9.0 should be a good option. > > > > What makes you say that RH 2.1 is bad on performance with SATA? > > I haven't found any such performance issues. > > In my experience the installation process which usually takes 25-45 > minutes on an IBM MPro with SATA disks on any other version takes > about 1 hour and 30 min with RHEL2.1. Writing 1G file takes more then > 5 minutes and it has load average of about 4-5 during the process. > Disk write performance is 3.5 M/s instead of 55M/s > > Download bonnie++ from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie/ and > find the disk performance. > > The above is what has been observed with RHEL2.1 (with any Update) on IBMs. > > I just shared my experience; you probably have a different model, > different kernel etc.. >
Yes, I've used SMP kernels on my testing machines. Which SATA disks are you using ?? Maybe they are the issue ?? > > And what is your definition of "free" ? > > In this context "free" means you don't have to pay a single penny. > RH7.x, RH8.0, RH9.0 and Fedora are free, you can download fedora from > I thought free in terms of freedom. > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/ > > I couldn't find the link for RH7.x, 8.0 or 9.0, probably because > redhat has declared EOL for them. > You still need to pay the bandwidth resource charges. > However Redhat's enterprise versions namely: RHEL2.1, 3.0 and 4.0 are > license based. You need an RHN login account in order to download the > ISOs. > You still can download the sources or go for White Box Linux. Ritesh - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJfW94Rhi6gTxMLwRAk+cAJ9EqDUhG1mPlJNZ/HZ8IFTUh+eKhgCgga0E KMfjF5INV3ASJR1WUUtlUoA= =yeOS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
