From: Vladimir Ivashchenko <hazard@francoudi.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Tru Huynh <tru@pasteur.fr>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sun x4500 soft lockup during raid creation
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:38:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233344286.14088.36.camel@hazard2.francoudi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49831CBB.8010609@tmr.com>
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:28 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > I changed the kernel to 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686 and so far it is stable.
> >
> > x64 will be the next step. i686 is what our guys install by default, I didn't bother to reinstall it.
> >
>
> In spite of the theoretical benefits of 64 bit, I find that the
> advantages are "measurable but not noticeable" for most things. The lack
> of 64 bit versions of some applications was a problem for me, but may
> not be for you. I did find that even building from source not all
> applications worked right, or worked at all, or in some cases compiled. :-(
More or less this is our experience also, but this box will only be used
as a file-server.
Does anybody know if software RAID benefits when being run in 64-bit ?
--
Best Regards,
Vladimir Ivashchenko
Chief Technology Officer
PrimeTel PLC, Cyprus - www.prime-tel.com
Tel: +357 25 100100 Fax: +357 2210 2211
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-30 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-28 20:30 sun x4500 soft lockup during raid creation Vladimir Ivashchenko
2009-01-28 21:33 ` Joe Landman
2009-01-28 21:37 ` Vladimir Ivashchenko
2009-01-28 22:17 ` Richard Scobie
2009-01-28 22:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-28 22:33 ` Tru Huynh
2009-01-28 23:08 ` Vladimir Ivashchenko
2009-01-30 15:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-30 19:38 ` Vladimir Ivashchenko [this message]
2009-01-30 22:28 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2009-01-29 22:54 ` Jody McIntyre
2009-02-05 16:10 ` Vladimir Ivashchenko
2009-02-20 18:57 ` Vladimir Ivashchenko
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