--- Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What about SuSE? I'm trying to store AVI files on my > Suse box. > > I'm this absolute noob with Suse 9.2 and Samba 3.09 > trying to get it > all to work reliably, and I have some problems. Of > course, my problems > are rather more interesting, or should I say, > esoteric. from what follows, it is probably not suse specific. seems to be more a filesystem io error, caused by the raid array. it is either the configuration of the array itself or the driver is buggy. ( since I often see people having problems with raid, it's most likely the driver itself. )
I would check for bugfix / updates for the raid driver from suse. > Um, the most obvious symptom is copying stuff to the > RAID array from a > WinXP workstation. Like tonight I picked a folder > full of big files > and did a drag'n'drop copy into a test folder on a > Samba share on the > linux box. I tried to copy 2.94GB of stuff. After > 15-20 minutes, it > died, like it always does, with "The specified > network name is no > longer available." It had copied 1.714GB worth. If > you start again, it > will just continue. If you use a smarter tool that > does retries, you > can click the OK button on the error and it will > just take off where > it left off as if nothing had happened. > > I'm also trying to run a DLink 320 media server > against content both > on a Windows workstation and server shares mapped to > drive letters on > that workstation. The media server at times acts > like the folders are > present but empty, but then you look again and it's > all there. are the server shares from the raid array linux system? it's not clear in this part. > Watching network activity and the access lights on > the drives, there's > a lot of net activity before the drives get busy. > Then they're both > really busy for the longest time, then the network > lights stall for a > long time and the drive continue to grind away. The > network channel on > the switch will light up for periods while the > drives keep busy. But > every once in a while the drives will make a noise > like a recalibrate > and just stop (access lights go out) for 5-10 > seconds). > > The server is a PIII-500mhz with 352mb of RAM. Yeah > I know, but it's > all I have. The RAID controller is a Compaq > SmartArray. It signs on as > a SmartArray 3200 in the BIOS but the configuration > software (Which > only runs in Win2k) thinks of it as a SmartArray 2P > or 2D. I have one > channel from the card cabled to a five drive array > and another channel > cabled to a three-drive array. All the arrays are > populated with > 10,000RPM 18gb drives. Benchmarks running against > this thing are so > slow to write, 2.1 mb/s, reads are more like 11-12 > mb/s on sequential > reads, 22mb/s on random reads. > > I wonder about a lot of things: People have > suggested that name > services, being UDP, are getting swamped by the TCP > traffic and the XP > workstations lose track of where the linux box is. > So I edited LMhosts > on the XP workstations and added an entry for the > linux box, with the > #PRE directive, so it would be precached. > > That made no difference that I can tell. > > Another thing I wonder about is whether I need a > special driver for > the RAID controller for SuSE or any other Linux. If > I run lspci it > says it's an "Unknown mass storage controller: > Compaq Computer > Corporation Smart-2P RAID Controller." But it found > the logical array > configured on it without any special help. > > So what's left: Not enough memory? Too dang slow at > 500mhz? I have a > parameter in smb.conf that's intended to provide > write caching for a > particular share, but I can't tell if it helped any: > Write Cache size > = 393216. I had it a 256k and that didn't help much > either. > > Running ifconfig shows no errors of any kind on the > eth0 interface, > and no traffic on any other. > > So, who's got an idea? > > -Tom > Jaqui support your local resource reallocation specialist, keep the dumpsters unlocked. plain text files only. m$ .doc not readable. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
