From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7481387FD for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DB35E0BBE; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [78.25.223.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A6B0E0BA5 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.18.15] (unknown [212.67.108.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AC0982C13 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:18:59 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <53986552.9090207@thegeezer.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:18:58 +0100 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller References: <537EFE48.70804@xunil.at> <5380F1F9.7030105@xunil.at> <53837E48.40208@xunil.at> <53839C9F.8040509@xunil.at> <53848D1B.1000108@xunil.at> <53981F0F.2010200@thegeezer.net> <539822A3.4010302@xunil.at> <53982C02.6040808@thegeezer.net> <539830A8.4090500@xunil.at> <5398325C.5060804@thegeezer.net> <53983441.9010004@xunil.at> <53983B09.6090307@thegeezer.net> <53983BD2.60104@xunil.at> <539842FB.9050907@thegeezer.net> <53984E64.4000408@xunil.at> <53985A81.4060404@thegeezer.net> <53985D2B.70509@xunil.at> <53986482.1020805@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <53986482.1020805@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f878fef-ad99-403a-8a40-c6848288b710 X-Archives-Hash: 8dcacb68c44c50c65076850dbad3b8d0 On 06/11/2014 03:15 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: >> >>>> So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? >>> I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is >>> stealing the activity. can you start up with no services enabled and >>> do the test ? >> hm, yes. although I had deactivated most of it already. >> >> >> Right now I compile a 3.10.x kernel with a config pulled from the >> sysresccd ... way more stuff compiled in, but maybe a step ... > That definitely helped. > > Faster booting and now the bottleneck is gone somewhere. > > dd-tests look good now, I already do a first backup via virt-backup > (which runs a dd with bs=4M under the hood ... and I pipe that through > pigz ...) > > Now I migrate and slim down this kernel config for the (gentoo-)stable > kernel linux-3.12.21-gentoo-r1 ... we'll see! > > Thanks @thegeezer for the help so far! > > Stefan > > it will be interesting to diff the previous.config and the current.config to see what the difference is!