Now that I've had a week of testing under my belt I think I can ask this question with a straight face: is there anything that can be done to fix the abysmal speed of just running OI on a system with IBM M1015 HBA cards installed?
Since putting them (a total of 3) into my new system, the OS itself is slower than anything I've ever seen. Sometimes the OS never seems to boot. When it does, it takes what seems like minutes for the a shell to start and even longer for the NAPP-IT interface to become available. Taking out the M1015 cards seems to fix the issue, but then I have no drives attached, which makes the point moot.
If it makes any difference this is a SuperMicro motherboard and I am accessing the box over the IPMI View app. For what its worth, even getting access over ssh is very slow without any KVM funny business. I have not flashed any firmware on the cards and the OI install is a fresh one to a 2.5 SATA HDD with just NAPP-IT installed.
My advanced thanks for any ideas or assistance.
Since putting them (a total of 3) into my new system, the OS itself is slower than anything I've ever seen. Sometimes the OS never seems to boot. When it does, it takes what seems like minutes for the a shell to start and even longer for the NAPP-IT interface to become available. Taking out the M1015 cards seems to fix the issue, but then I have no drives attached, which makes the point moot.
If it makes any difference this is a SuperMicro motherboard and I am accessing the box over the IPMI View app. For what its worth, even getting access over ssh is very slow without any KVM funny business. I have not flashed any firmware on the cards and the OI install is a fresh one to a 2.5 SATA HDD with just NAPP-IT installed.
My advanced thanks for any ideas or assistance.