Hi all,
I have a Novell OES install here. I was using Qlogic QLA HBA's to
connect to an iSCSI storage device, however it was causing no ends of
problems, such as hanging the server etc.
Anyhow, I have configured normal iSCSI on OES but the performance of
it is bad too. No it does not crash the server, in fact it works well
and I have not gotten any errors there. But in terms of speed, it is
very very slow. Granted the TCPOE on the QLA4010 would be great to
have working now, but alas that is not the case.
It took 10 min to copy 8GB data from the localhost to the storage
device. I am just doing a mkfs.ext3 now and my load has shoot right up
(load average: 4.01, 3.00, 1.46) from 0, 0, 0. It was worse when I was
copying files.
There is no other traffic on the iscsi network (GigE) at the moment
apart from this test server. I am wondering if this is normal. I have
tested this win windows 2003 srv and the qlogic hba and the
performance appears much faster.
Is there something I am doing wrong here or some tweaks I can perform
to increase performance.
Hardware info below;
Any help welcomed.
Cheers
AJ
HW Info
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.530
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
bogomips : 3170.30
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.530
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
bogomips : 3186.68
processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.530
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 2
core id : 6
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
bogomips : 3186.68
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.530
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 2
core id : 7
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
bogomips : 3186.68
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8306824 kB
MemFree: 7070320 kB
Buffers: 753152 kB
Cached: 207000 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 252852 kB
Inactive: 896432 kB
HighTotal: 7470752 kB
HighFree: 7064528 kB
LowTotal: 836072 kB
LowFree: 5792 kB
SwapTotal: 3148732 kB
SwapFree: 3148732 kB
Dirty: 732472 kB
Writeback: 7164 kB
Mapped: 258520 kB
Slab: 65208 kB
Committed_AS: 3035632 kB
PageTables: 3488 kB
VmallocTotal: 112632 kB
VmallocUsed: 20920 kB
VmallocChunk: 90724 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
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