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@ihatetonyy
The "Integrated Remote Console" only works with IE but the "Remote Console" works fine under FF and chrome..
So I talked with them their tech support guys (exchanged a total of probably 40 e-mails now) and they're going to take a look into my I/O.
Should be interesting :P
You guys have pretty good IO compare to mine:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
^C1025+0 records in
1025+0 records out
67174400 bytes (67 MB) copied
, 361.119 s, 186 kB/s
I had to cancel it by pressing Ctrl + C several times as it was taking too long.
It is running on VMWare Esxi 5
Did you ask them to switch it from the parallel port? That is quite the performance for a floppy drive.
^C1025+0 records in
1025+0 records out
67174400 bytes (67 MB) copied
, 361.119 s, 186 kB/s
Absolutely impossible to run a OS on such HDD. Something is deffinetely wrong. I suggest getting rid of the vmware and installing some minimal linux distro and trying again.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-b8cacaa71541492d8ee070fe99
My reading so far has led me to the strange notion that making sure write cache is enabled and set to 0% is the solution to fixing disk I/O. Apparently the e200i is pure trash. I'll let you know how that goes when 1mbit upload manages to boot a 100mb ISO.
latest update:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 33.8769 s, 31.7 MB/s
They told me it just happened to be a bad sector where I was doing dd test originally...
They can swap the hard drive for me, but for some reason hardware RAID 1 is not hot-swappable so they'll have to take my server offline first...
Hot swapping does not really depend on the RAID type. More likely if the RAID card/chasis support it.
At the risk of throwing this thread off-topic, if you've started your server, have you gotten it to run smoothly?
I'm trying to continue a server/world that ran beautifully on a (admittedly quite more powerful) OVH demo server. It's literally killing itself if anyone so much as runs around. It keeps throwing OOM even with 1705MB free according to free -m.
What is java's memory limit set to?
@ihatetonyy After tweaking the system a bit, I could fly and force it to generate new territory rapidly and not a hint of any kind of lag.
1536M. Using this string to start the server:
Sadly this is with an existing world.
how we can check all the smart parameters in the disks? I've tried to use smartmontools a little bit, but I don't get all the parameters as a normal HDD.
@yomero smartctl --all -d cciss,1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
Hm we'll see how it goes once they get the new box up.
Anyone have any luck running openvz on the datashack'er?
I haven't tried yet but I'm sure it can handle it. The CPUs have virtualization enabled anyways.
Definitely possible, but disk I/O alone will kill your VPS
OVZ does not require amd-v or intel vt enabled to run.
I am sbolutely sure it can handle a couple of low-end VPS, the dual CPU setup is not that bad.
The CPU is actually a lot better in practice than you'd think by looking at the scary benchmark numbers for it's model. It's no i7 but it's not bad. I've got disk I/O up to 123mb/s, still doubtful that's the expected performance of two 10k SAS drives on RAID0 but I'm determined to make these things scream.
Just as I said, the CPU is not that bad and you get 4 cores. Probably you can get up to 140MB/s. What chunk size do you use on the RAID? Does it have caching enabled? The performance is not that bad for RAID 0, counting this HDDs are probably used for a couple of years.
Yeah, these are the cpu's Damian uses for his 32mb VPS's and still pretty good
You can actually build a machine similar to this for around 130-150$, the CPUs cost around 6$ each.
Not sure on the chunk size, their utilities are kind of vague and it's taken me most of the day to gain the kind of control over them that I'm just starting to get (thanks to upload speed and the utility ISO). Current task is flashing the firmware in the controller. HP is so confusing. If you go to the E200i page you get firmware for the possible drives connected, had to google to find the actual firmware for the controller.
You really think so? I mean I've not exactly ran around testing a lot of drives like this, but it bothers me that I have a 500gb 7200rpm SATA (II...if memory serves, my brain is a little off) outperforming either one of these drives by themselves. With the consistency of other reports I feel like there is something fixable here.
Page seems to have all the firmware for the HP Blades:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/doc/p616879734/v69059/ReleaseSet_Compatibility_Table-9.30.pdf
@jarland Ty, I did that. But doesn't show enough information for me u_u (Like normal drives and so).
Btw, any idea what happens if I move from HT1.0 to HT3.0??
And what about the firmware? Is the latest? Is convenient to update? I have this one "1.81 01/15/2010"
@jarland how u did the firmware update?
when i click on iLO2 firmware, i get:
iLO 2 User Privilege Notice
Currently ineligible for access to this resource.
iLO 2 User Privilege Notice
Reboot from console, hit F9, and change your privileges in the User setup thing. If you feel adventurous, you may be able to change your privs via HPONCFG, but I was too lazy to install it.
Did you guys notice a difference in changing the firmware?
@jarland
I will answer about the things you posted asap I am home
And just wanted to point out my experience with them:
Sent an email to the support asking my questions for sales, they answered in 3 minutes, exhanged 2 more emails and ordered a server 15 minutes after.
Around 20 hours later I received the email that they are setting it up.
7 hours later the server was already delivered in my email
Responded to the email for ilo access - received it in around 1 minute