Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-30 Thread Bond Masuda
leksey Tsalolikhin > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:00 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package > versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4) > > I read up on "prelink" as suggested; and used "ldd /sbin/mkf

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-30 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
I read up on "prelink" as suggested; and used "ldd /sbin/mkfs.ext3" to see what the dependencies (libraries) are. There are 13 dependencies; file size is the same between servers but md5sum's are different! Most of these libraries have other libraries they call; I finally drilled down to ld-2.5.s

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-30 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Spiro Harvey wrote: >> Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: >> > (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and >> > (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to get >> > the mkfs.ext3 time down

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > > (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and > > (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to get > > the mkfs.ext3 time down to 15 sec on both systems. > > Solving (a) should shed light on

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread Spiro Harvey
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and > (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to get > the mkfs.ext3 time down to 15 sec on both systems. > Solving (a) should shed light on (b). Any ideas? Look into prelinking (man prelink). A

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/29/10 6:17 PM, Craig White wrote: > Similar says, not exactly and the hard drives, controller and RAID > configuration differences would be the first place to look for your > answer. > > indeed, first place I'd look would be for things like battery backed raid controllers with/without w

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 18:07 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Situation: two similar servers, both with CentOS 5.4 64-bit. Making > an ext3 filesystem on one takes seconds, on the other minutes. > > Partition SizeServer 1 Server 2 > > 1 GB 0.7 sec 0.3 sec > > 4

[CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Situation: two similar servers, both with CentOS 5.4 64-bit. Making an ext3 filesystem on one takes seconds, on the other minutes. Partition SizeServer 1 Server 2 1 GB 0.7 sec 0.3 sec 4 GB 2.5 sec 1.2 sec 40 GB15 sec