On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:10:14 +0200
"Seth Mos" <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 12:17 5-6-2002 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> >Hello,
> >does anybody have experiencies with the Redhat installer from
> >ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.1/installer/instal
> >ler/i386/ Does anybody has tried that? It is supposed to be stable
> >enough for everyday use?
> >Thx,
> >Florian
>
> I did test the kernel from this installer (2.4.18 Red Hat based) on a
> medium sized ia32 box and it did well.
>
> It was a dual 1.4Ghz PIII and 2GB ram with a hardware raid 10.
> I tried some local mongo.pl runs with a lot of processes and bonnie++
> runs back to back for a day over NFS (gigabit ethernet).
>
> Not too stellar scores (hardware raid limit) but the machine survived
> none the less. NFS performance was about 500Mbps but this was limited
> by the desktop client machine.
>
> Don't forget to make your network buffers larger if you have gigabit
> ethernet if you want some return on investment ;)
> Otherwise it is just like having 100Mbit ethernet.
>
> I have not tested the installer part due to time shortage. I think
> Eric did test this before releasing it. Eric you did test it by
> upgrading did you :)
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Seth
> It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.
>
As far as just the installer part goes I just finished upgrading 6 machines
from RH7.1-XFS1.0.1 without a hitch. The only problems I had were with things
that would have occured with the installer from Red Hat as well related to
the installer defaulting to ipchains while the systems were set up to use
iptables.
Thanks for great work Eric!
Russ
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Russel H. Ingram
Unix Systems Administrator
Institute for Scientific Computation
University of Wyoming/Math Dept.
Phone: (307)766-6546
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