[clue-tech] Day 2 (New Hardware)

[Jack Parker]

I imagine most of you are tired of this thread.  If you want to follow
along, but off line, let me know and I'll stop bothering the group with it.

Rainy day - perfect for playing with penguins.  Let's do some benchmarking
and see what works best given what we have.

Bonnie test first.  Bonnie reports that the SATA 3 drive is generally 5
times faster than what i had (block sequential output was only 1.66x
faster).

Copied Oracle (9 and 10g) and Informix (9.4) over to the FC4 box.  Went
through the install - or rather started.  Oracle 9 is not happy with FC4,
neither is 10g.  Went to the internet bible site on Oracle/Linux - oh no,
miles of things you have to do.  Hmmm, let's try Informix - which came up
with only a minor struggle.  Brought some data over, some minor conversion
issues.  Did a full table scan to see how it compared 2min vs 48 seconds.
Wait, it's slower?  Of course it is, I didn't get light scans going, didn't
have raw disk set up - those would have brought it down to ~25 seconds.  The
killer is the data model for this particular DB which is total cr*p -
favours an Oracle or SQLServer database.  Ok, then let's do apples to
apples.  Starting with the OS.

Install RH 7.3 - Disk Druid was confused by the disk (size?), but it seemed
to do ok once I guided it.  Installed and booted.  Cool, let's pop over to
the old box and...  what do you mean I have no eth0?  7.3 is too old.  Ok,
let's move to RH9.

Pop that in and away we go - except that RH9 doesn't see the SATA disk!  No
drivers for it - how did 7.3???

Ok, I give, I'll go back to FC4 and bite the bullet.  Only FC4 now indicates
that it can't write to the partition.  Oh No Mr. Bill!

Guess I'll have to pop in a disk util and wipe the disk and start over.
That is if I can find a disk util that sees SATA.

Film at 11.

j.