followup: Re: High End machines very slow running RHEL4, fast running xBSD, Debian GNU/Linux...

thus Timo Schoeler spake:
thus Lenard spake:
Timo Schoeler wrote:

we have two dozen servers here, most of them running RHEL4 (ES). those
machines range from Dual 3.6GHz Xeons (w/Hyperthreading), 4GByte RAM and
hardware RAID controllers (PERC4/5, as those are Dell machines) up to
newest Core 2 machines with 4GByte or more RAM.

Dell does supply drivers all you need to do is download them.
http://support.dell.com/

those are *blobs*.

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uname -a:
Linux xyz.simpson.bart 2.6.17.13 #0 SMP Wed Sep 13 09:52:14 CEST 2006
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

So, you choose not to use a standard kernel, so this means Red Hat and Dell
cannot help you.

great -- we cannot use 'standard' kernels because we use FibreChannel HBAs and have to build custom kernels to support them.

*followup*

_not_ all machines run a custom kernel. but they're _all_ slow...

(that's why i like OpenBSD. no blobs. no problems. *real* freedom :)
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