[suse-sles-e] Re: catastrophic disk-performance on SLES10 with SATA drives

From: Markus Roeffen (markus.roeffen_at_iws.uni-stuttgart.de)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 09:37:57 CEST


Message-ID: <4610B2D5.8010208@iws.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:37:57 +0200
From: Markus Roeffen <markus.roeffen@iws.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Re: catastrophic disk-performance on SLES10 with SATA drives

Hallo Heiko,

we have the same problem with the SCSI (internal and external RAID) on
HP ProLiant DL360 G4p.
There are high IO wait times and poor disk/nfs-performance and we've
tried the same steps and measures like you so far (and a few things more).

Fortunatly I've got a few hints for you to improve your performance.
- HP has delivered a HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) (which works only
with kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8 on SLES). You can upgrade/downgrade to this
kernel and try out the PSP.
- Furthermore there is new firmware available for HP ProLiant DL360 G4p
(Firmware 7.70-0, Febuary 2007)

You can test your performance with the commandos "vmstat" and "iostat".
There is a performance guide available at:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/IBMp690/IBM/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/prftungd/2365c81.htm

I've also posted our problem in the Novell support forum at:
http://forums.novell.com/group/novell.support.sles.install-boot/readerNoFrame.tpt/@thread@768@F@10@D-,D@+768/@article@768

Just let me know, if my tips have solved your problem or if you have
additional hints for our problem.

Thanks in advance
Markus

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