----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn M. Jones" smj@littleprojects.org
You have to recompile the driver from source every time you do a kernel update. Otherwise works great for me. Dont forget to do optimizations to get max performance, there's some simple ones on 3ware's site that make
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Excellent! Thanks Scott. I can't wait until the rest of my drives come in so I can get started. Looks like staying with CentOS over going to FC2 is the right course of action for this server! :-)
Last week I ricompiled the 3ware driver (7006-2), thank you Scott, to solve a EXT3 errors and now all is ok and functionally, no EXT3 error after a week. But when the server go a load average about 2.0/2.5 the CPU iowait go up to 70-80% ... impressive!
I found this thread very interesting: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121434#c43 but the only solution at my problems is to recompile Kernel with 3ware driver statically compiled in.
I ricompiled the Kernel from source ( 2.4.27 ), in a server test, and now the CPU iowait is about 3 - 5 % with the same load av.
maurizio