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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HowTo: EIDE/ATA-100 + RAID 1 + LVM
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On Thursday, 28 June 2001, at 16:46:10 -0500,
Robert_Macaulay@Dell.com wrote:

> About the Raid 1.
> [...]
> I know I changed 2 variables(RAM and RAID). I'm going to go back to HW raid
> 1 for now, and see if it makes a difference.
> 
I would choose hardware RAID instead os software RAID: this reduces CPU
overhead on the server, and avoids performance problems due to excesive
layering of "block devices".

2.4.x isn't "productoin quality" yet on some kinds of hardware, specially
those SMP machines with lots of RAM (requiring BIGMEM). That seems to be
your case, and is a known and (hopefully) soon-to-be-solved problem.

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Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez
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