From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:10:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:10:13 -0400 Received: from node-cffb924a.powerinter.net ([207.251.146.74]:9035 "HELO switchmanagement.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:10:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3B867C6A.4000700@switchmanagement.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:10:18 -0700 From: Brian Strand Organization: Switch Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Ford CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x In-Reply-To: <3B85E7E2.7000602@switchmanagement.com> <3B85FBC6.3080305@blue-labs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Do either of these kernels fix the "2.4.x VM suckage" problems? I don't want to use a 2.4.x kernel because Oracle runs almost 2x slower (with identical hardware config) on 2.4.4 and 2.4.6 versus 2.2.16 (and I have 4G of swap for 2G of physical mem, so that is not the problem), not to mention that one of these 2.4.x kernels caused Oracle corruption. I don't feel so comfortable testing new kernels with several hundred GBs of customer data anymore :) . David Ford wrote: > I first suggest that you try kernel 2.4.9 or the latest of 2.4.8-acN. > > David > > Brian Strand wrote: > >> I have a quad xeon 2GB system running Oracle which I am reverting to >> 2.2.x because of 2.4.x's less than desirable VM performance (causing >> a 2x Oracle slowdown, reported about a month ago on linux-kernel). I >> foolishly put a 3ware card in at the same time as I "upgraded" the >> box to 2.4.4, so now I am in the undesirable position of needing to >> go back to 2.2.19, but that kernel cannot find the card. I get the >> following message during boot: >> >> 3w-xxxx: tw_find_cards(): No cards found >> /lib/moduless/2.2.19-2GB-SMP/scsi/3w-xxxx.o: init_module: Device or >> resource busy >> >> I have tried compiling the 3ware driver version 1.02.00.{004,006,007} >> all with the same result. Has anyone managed to use a Suse 2.2.19 >> kernel with 3ware cards with any success? The 1.02.00.004 driver is >> from the stock 2.2.19 kernel, the .006 driver is from 3ware's >> website, and the .007 driver is from 2.2.20pre9. >