Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:29, Doug Griswold wrote: > I used the same filesystem type and mount options. It's a very > perplexing issue, I've always seen better performance out of debian over > red hat. But my experience on scsi raid is very limited. mke2fs has options to tune the file system for th

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Doug Griswold
I used the same filesystem type and mount options. It's a very perplexing issue, I've always seen better performance out of debian over red hat. But my experience on scsi raid is very limited. Thanks Again >>> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/03 18:07 PM >>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:26:46PM -0500, Doug Griswold wrote: > You are right about the 10 percent hdparm is kinda suckey when it comes > to giving absolute resulte but it will give you a general idea of what > the disks are doing. I didn't reassign the disks when installing > debian, I basicall

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Doug Griswold
You are right about the 10 percent hdparm is kinda suckey when it comes to giving absolute resulte but it will give you a general idea of what the disks are doing. I didn't reassign the disks when installing debian, I basically just booted into debian deleted the partitions that were there from r

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:29, Doug Griswold wrote: > I used the same filesystem type and mount options. It's a very > perplexing issue, I've always seen better performance out of debian over > red hat. But my experience on scsi raid is very limited. mke2fs has options to tune the file system for th

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Doug Griswold
I used the same filesystem type and mount options. It's a very perplexing issue, I've always seen better performance out of debian over red hat. But my experience on scsi raid is very limited. Thanks Again >>> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/03 18:07 PM >>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:26:46PM -0500, Doug Griswold wrote: > You are right about the 10 percent hdparm is kinda suckey when it comes > to giving absolute resulte but it will give you a general idea of what > the disks are doing. I didn't reassign the disks when installing > debian, I basicall

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Doug Griswold
You are right about the 10 percent hdparm is kinda suckey when it comes to giving absolute resulte but it will give you a general idea of what the disks are doing. I didn't reassign the disks when installing debian, I basically just booted into debian deleted the partitions that were there from r

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:41, Doug Griswold wrote: > I installed the Red Hat kernel and performance was affected some but not > much. I now get between 50-56Mb/s but still not close to the 70Mb/s of > before. Is hdparm accurate enough to determine a <10% difference? I suspect that your results so

rpc.statd buffer overflow attempt?

2003-03-22 Thread Andy Gardner
Just noticed the following in logs for one of my servers: Mar 21 22:28:23 your rpc.statd[196]: gethostbyname error for ^X—ø^X—ø^Z—ø^Z—ø%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%62716x%hn%51859x%hn\220\220\220\220\220\220\22 0\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:41, Doug Griswold wrote: > I installed the Red Hat kernel and performance was affected some but not > much. I now get between 50-56Mb/s but still not close to the 70Mb/s of > before. Is hdparm accurate enough to determine a <10% difference? I suspect that your results so

rpc.statd buffer overflow attempt?

2003-03-22 Thread Andy Gardner
Just noticed the following in logs for one of my servers: Mar 21 22:28:23 your rpc.statd[196]: gethostbyname error for ^X—ø^X—ø^Z—ø^Z—ø%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%62716x%hn%51859x%hn\220\220\220\220\220\220\22 0\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Doug Griswold
I installed the Red Hat kernel and performance was affected some but not much. I now get between 50-56Mb/s but still not close to the 70Mb/s of before. I'm not sure what you mean here "Also did you re-create the RAID device in the process of installing Debian?" if you could explain this to me a

Re: exim and sql

2003-03-22 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:05:27PM +, Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'll be setting up a student mail server, the idea is that each student > will have a email (webmail), and their login will let them log in to > intranet site as well. > So I probably loking on some kin

exim and sql

2003-03-22 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi all, I'll be setting up a student mail server, the idea is that each student will have a email (webmail), and their login will let them log in to intranet site as well. So I probably loking on some kind of exim - sql setup? Is there anything ready made out there? What do you guys suggest? Thank

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 15k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Doug Griswold
I installed the Red Hat kernel and performance was affected some but not much. I now get between 50-56Mb/s but still not close to the 70Mb/s of before. I'm not sure what you mean here "Also did you re-create the RAID device in the process of installing Debian?" if you could explain this to me a

Re: exim and sql

2003-03-22 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:05:27PM +, Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'll be setting up a student mail server, the idea is that each student > will have a email (webmail), and their login will let them log in to > intranet site as well. > So I probably loking on some kind

exim and sql

2003-03-22 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi all, I'll be setting up a student mail server, the idea is that each student will have a email (webmail), and their login will let them log in to intranet site as well. So I probably loking on some kind of exim - sql setup? Is there anything ready made out there? What do you guys suggest? Thank

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 18k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 04:54, Doug Griswold wrote: > Hey guys I am having a small performance problem with a dell 1650 with > the perc3/di raid 5 card. I had red hat on this box and was getting > 70-75Mb/s when testing with hdparm -tT /dev/sda. Now using Debian I am > getting 40-50Mb/s. I am usin

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 18k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:54, Doug Griswold wrote: > Hey guys I am having a small performance problem with a dell 1650 with > the perc3/di raid 5 card. I had red hat on this box and was getting > 70-75Mb/s when testing with hdparm -tT /dev/sda. I suggest using anything other than hdparm for benchmar

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 18k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 04:54, Doug Griswold wrote: > Hey guys I am having a small performance problem with a dell 1650 with > the perc3/di raid 5 card. I had red hat on this box and was getting > 70-75Mb/s when testing with hdparm -tT /dev/sda. Now using Debian I am > getting 40-50Mb/s. I am usin

Re: dell 1650 perc3/di raid 5 18k rpm performance

2003-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:54, Doug Griswold wrote: > Hey guys I am having a small performance problem with a dell 1650 with > the perc3/di raid 5 card. I had red hat on this box and was getting > 70-75Mb/s when testing with hdparm -tT /dev/sda. I suggest using anything other than hdparm for benchmar