Fun hardware - first results

Testing the Fusion-io ioXtreme 80GB (/dev/fioa) vs Intel X25-M gen 2 160G (/dev/sda). The non-directio dd went cpu-limited for some reason, needs looking into.

792 MB/s read speed at 12% cpu use in the directio case looks a bit promising :)

# dd if=/dev/fioa2 of=/dev/null bs=1M
26723+1 records in
26723+1 records out
28021615104 bytes (28 GB) copied, 201.797 s, 139 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/fioa2 of=/dev/null bs=1M iflag=direct
19792+0 records in
19791+0 records out
20752367616 bytes (21 GB) copied, 26.2142 s, 792 MB/s

# dd if=/dev/sda4 of=/dev/null bs=1M
5157+0 records in
5156+0 records out
5406457856 bytes (5.4 GB) copied, 25.136 s, 215 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/sda4 of=/dev/null bs=1M iflag=direct
6040+0 records in
6039+0 records out
6332350464 bytes (6.3 GB) copied, 26.1701 s, 242 MB/s

Stay tuned, more to come...

Fedora kernel on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

I had need of a Fedora Core 12 kernel lately. Testing the fun hardware of the previous post.

Turns out that running that kernel with Ubuntu 10.04 userspace is pretty easy. Alien + some dkms invocations are enough.

fakeroot alien kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.rpm
fakeroot alien kernel-devel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.rpm

dpkg -i kernel_2.6.31.5-128_amd64.deb
dpkg -i kernel-devel_2.6.31.5-128_amd64.deb

update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64

dkms build -m nvidia-current -v 195.36.15 -k 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
dkms install -m nvidia-current -v 195.36.15 -k 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64

update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64

update-grub

et voila:

knan@sarevok:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
knan@sarevok:~$ uname -a
Linux sarevok 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux