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> We have got a server that we have been prepping for a while. We just > added more disks to it (it previously had a single 18GB SCSI), so we now > have the 18GB single disk and a 5*36GB RAID5 set. > > Since we introduced the RAID set, we are seeing paging errors on the > machine, and we haven't been able to transfer the data that needs to > live on the raid array (via rsync). > > Just wandering if anyone else has seen something like this? > > Machine is a Poweredge 2500, PIII-1133/512MB, on-board Intel eepro100, > off-board tulip-based NIC, no other hardware besides the 1*18GB and > 5*36GB disks. > > We are running lvm over the RAID5 (but the machine originally ran lvm on > the 18GB SCSI single for testing, no problems then). > > More details available if you are not familiar with Dell stuff, when I > can get into the machine. > > Please cc me as I'm subscribed in digest mode. > > Regards, > Buchan If it helps, we run several Dell PE 2550 servers with an assortment of PERC 3 cards. Most of the servers run with 4 or 5 disk raid 5 hardware arrays and they are the most solid systems we have. We only run 8.2 on them though, if that makes a difference. Mark. - -- Mark Watts Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key available on request. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JT5JBn4EFUVUIO0RAlKlAJwLl3p13ykM8rw2uTYVvv2fP9tk1gCcCSur liqKrXyOxo4gQqAVcnFNqzw= =yLpo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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