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 atsaloli.t...@gmail.com 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)

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 c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Spiro Harvey wrote: Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to

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.so

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

2010-06-30 Thread Bond Masuda
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/mkfs.ext3 to see what the dependencies (libraries) are. There are 13 dependencies; file size is the same

[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

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 GB

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

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 atsaloli.t...@gmail.com 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