*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* >Well, I certainly hope you haven't let this issue just fester for a >month! Stay on top of tech support. File reports with Bugzilla. >It's _your_ responsibility to see that you get your money's worth. >You know, squeeky wheel and all that... I don't know what the rules are here about posting RedHat stuff, but since I was praising people for providing good advise.... The issue I am having is regarding the megaraid drivers. I am running a Dell server with raid 5 on RHEL 3.0. Access is very slow. hdparm -t shows approximatly 8MB/sec. I have done the following to troubleshoot: 1) modified initrd to use the provided megaraid2 module 2) Booted off of Knoppix and checked the speed (75MB/sec) 3) Booted off of the RedHat disk1 in recovery mode and checked the speed (no change still 8MB/sec) 4) used a large file copy operation to ensure that hdparm not giving me erroneous information. Took about twice as long as my laptop that is running Fedora. (I know this is a rough test) FURTHER SYMPTOMS 'top' shows high iowait percentage. I assume this is just the OS outrunning the drives. If anyone has any further things for me to try, please let me know.
