----- "Bogdan Costescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Chris Samuel wrote: > > > 1) Use a mainline kernel, we've found benefit of that > > over stock CentOS kernels. > > Care to comment on this statement ?
a) We found that we got better performance out of the mainline kernels than the CentOS ones; we guess because they handle newer hardware better (RHEL is meant to aim for stability over performance) b) We can use XFS for scratch space rather than being tied to the RHEL One True Filesystem (ext3) which (in our experience) can't handle large amounts of disk I/O. YMMV! cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
