RE: kernel 2.2.19 limitations.
I have a 2.4.4 machine with two Pentium III 833MHz CPUs and an AcceleRAID
170/64MB with a pair of IBM Ultra160 disks on it, all on a Tyan Thunder 2500
LE3(?) motherboard. It has on-board SCSI as well, symbios 53c1010 chipset,
and everything works okay. I can't get the controller's cache to read as
enabled though, damned if I know why.
But as far as stability is concerned the machine works like a charm, and
mysql likes it well enough to do 7200 UPDATEs/second on it during my batch
jobs. :-)
- jsw
-----Original Message-----
From: Przemyslaw Wegrzyn [mailto:czajnik@tower.t16.ds.pwr.wroc.pl]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 6:50 PM
To: Peter Billson
Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown:
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.19 limitations.
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Peter Billson wrote:
> Whoops... helps if I post *to* the list too!
>
> > Yes the limit is still the usual 2Gb. The limit is actually with ext2, i
> > believe, although I'm not sure.
>
> The limit is in the kernel, not the ext2 file system, otherwise 2.4.x
> wouldn't be able to support >2Gb file either. There are patches about
> for adding LFS (large file system) support. I had compiled a 2.2.18
> kernel after patching with the LFS patch borrowed from RedHat's 6.2ee
> (Enterprise Edition) source.
>
> But why not just run 2.4.x?
Hmm, I'm building some so called "very important server".
I'm not sure if 2.4.x is stable enough.
It will run Apache, biiig PostgreSQL database, all on big RAID.
Anyone has experience with 2.4.x + SMP (2 x PIII) + Mylex AcceleRAID ?
After reading some newsgroups I believe 2.4.x kernels works pretty stable
or does totaly weird things, all depends of the hardware configuration.
Well, it seems some drivers are not yet stable enough...
-=Czaj-nick=-
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