Subject: Re: [vserver] tickless and raid over ethernet
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:09:16 -0600

On Tue February 19 2008 10:00, Chuck wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Steve Dommett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Chuck wrote:
> > > has anyone messed with the new kernel tickless option? does it affect/help
> > > vserver performance?
> > I've not seen any adverse effects yet on my desktop vserver system.
> > 
> 
> has it improved performance any?
>

Using 2.6.24 on 2 processor machine (tickless - preemptable) does seem to improve 
the performance.  But it also certainly screws ntpd!

Haven't tried 2.6.24.2 yet - still waiting for a 2.6.24.x vserver patch announcement
rather than the 2.6.24-rc patch that is posted.

Mike
> 
> 
> > > also, has anyone experience with doing a raid1 or some type of partition
> > > mirroring between machines via private ethernet?
> > http://www.drbd.org/ seems to be what you want.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   Steve.
> > 
> 
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