I have a fresh ia64 box I should be able to work with in the next couple of days.
Cheers, -Brian -------------------------- Brian Elliott Finley Linux Strategist, CIS Desk: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 -----Original Message----- From: Bernard Li To: Finley, Brian E.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sun Apr 09 19:34:28 2006 Subject: RE: [Sisuite-devel] RE: e100 slowness with trunk Great stuff Andrea - when I did the kernel config for x86_64, I was just using whatever's default. Anyways glad that you figured it out. We need to start stabilizing 3.7.3 for the imminent code freeze for OSCAR 5.0. Are there any new features we want in 3.7.3 before we tag and release? For me, I'd like to complete si_mkbootpackage such that it acts similarly to si_prepareclient. Brian, how goes ia64? We should try to bring it up to 2.6.12.2 prior to release. Thanks, Bernard ________________________________ From: Finley, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 09/04/2006 14:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bernard Li Cc: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] RE: e100 slowness with trunk Heh, slob. -------------------------- Brian Elliott Finley Linux Strategist, CIS Desk: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Righi To: Bernard Li CC: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Finley, Brian E. Sent: Sun Apr 09 16:47:13 2006 Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] RE: e100 slowness with trunk Bernard, stop it! I found the problem! :-) It was the SLOB allocator (http://lwn.net/Articles/157944/); it's more memory efficient than the default SLAB, but it seems that with this allocator rsync becomes very very slow... so better to use SLAB (in fact in the x86_64 config it is correctly enabled). Moreover I checked in the trunk the 2.6.16.2 kernel (for i386 only).. it has some fixes and I already did the work to properly configure it during the tests of today... Cheers, -Andrea PS I've also added a comment about SLOB/SLAB issue on wiki (http://wiki.sisuite.org/BOELupdate)! http://lwn.net/Articles/157944/ Bernard Li wrote: > I'd rather not downgrade the kernel at this point - hopefully newer > releases will fix this problem. > > rsync is currently at 2.6.7 (we're using 2.6.6), so after the svn > server is back up I will try to see if that helps at all... > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > P.S. Incidentally, I tested trunk with x86_64 with e1000 (I think) > and it works perfectly fine, so I'm not really sure what's going > on... >
