Re: iSCSI tape drive problems

2008-06-18 Thread Sparqz
I must have really dark sunglasses on, because I've never seen an iSCSI tape drive before? Anyhow, I don't think your MTU (lack of jumbo frames) is the problem, I can easily get 50MB/s sustained transfers over a gigabit network. First I would confirm that the path between your linux iSCSI

Re: iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-03-06 Thread Sparqz
/ corrupt anything, and I've been thrashing it to the limits of 1Gbit ethernet. I'll come back when I have problems with 10gbe! Thanks all! Stuart. On Mar 6, 11:10 pm, Hannes Reinecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sparqz wrote: FYI: If anyone is keen to have a look at my bugzilla submission

Re: iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-03-04 Thread Sparqz
Hi Mike, Could you try this tarball http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mnc/open-iscsi/releases/ope... And try it with different IO schedulers by doing cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler echo $ONE_OF_THE_VALUES_FROM_THE_CAT /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler Please be carefull with

Re: iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-03-04 Thread Sparqz
FYI: If anyone is keen to have a look at my bugzilla submission at SuSE https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366492 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups open-iscsi group. To post to this group,

iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-03-02 Thread Sparqz
The default run for bonnie++ on a server with 32GB of memory takes forever...! But it looks like the performance is up on the production server (Still SLES10 SP1) with the semi-stable release from the open- iscsi website. Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input-

Re: iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-02-25 Thread Sparqz
Here's some output from tcpdump, this is a bunch of duplicate acks, I don't think these are normal... unless anyone can tell me different? 192.168.50.8 is the iSCSI target, 192.168.50.11 is the initiator 11:14:45.391670 IP 192.168.50.8.3260 192.168.50.11.58035: P 3143284:3144176(892) ack 193

Re: bnx2i driver for RHEL 4?

2008-02-21 Thread Sparqz
I would be keen to see RHEL4 support for bnx2i - I was under the impression that the DL585-G2 has two onboard BCM5706 which were Multi- purpose with iSCSI offload engine? Do you have to pay a license fee to use HP's bnx2i, or is that only when used under a Micro$oft operating system? On Feb 22,

Re: iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-02-21 Thread Sparqz
Hi Pasi, My setup: 1x HP DL585 - SLES10 x86_64 1x HP DL585 - RHEL4 x86_64 1x HP DL380 - SLES10 i586 SLES10 or SLES10SP1 ? SLES10SP1 Have you tried installing and using the latest open-iscsi from open-iscsi.org ? 2x Cisco 2960G (gigabit) switches 2x Infortrend A16E-G2130-4

iSCSI Errors - SLES10 + Infortrend

2008-02-20 Thread Sparqz
Hi All, I have a nasty problem with open-iscsi on SLES10 + an Infortrend iSCSI array. Basically it looks like everything goes wrong as soon as the read/ write load becomes heavy, although network dumps suggest the problem is always there, it just goes critical when the load is too heavy. My