Re: XFS installer for Redhat

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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/installer/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

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Seth
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