On Thursday 15 November 2007 14:24, Rob Mueller wrote: > > That's my personal opinion, and I realize that some of the > > commercial vendors may care about their insane customers' > > satisfaction, but I'm simply not interested in insane users. If > > they have that much RAM (and bought it a few years ago when a > > 64-bit CPU wasn't an option), they can't be poor. > > From our perspective, the main issue is that some of these machines > we spent quite a bit of money on the big RAM (for it's day) + lots of > 15k RPM SCSI drives + multi-year support contracts. They're highly IO > bound, and barely use 10-20% of their old 2.4Ghz Prestonia Xeon CPUs. > It's hard to justify junking those machines < 5 years. > > We have a couple of 6G machines and some 8G machines using PAE. On > the whole, they actually have been working really well (hmmm, apart > from the recent dirty pages issue + reiserfs data=journal leaks + > inodes in lowmem limits)
Junk everything except the 15K drives, you will be glad you did. Too bad about those multi-year support contracts, hopefully you got a deal on them. Prediction: after these dirty pages issues are gone, there will be more dirty page issues because the notion of dirty page limit is fundamentally broken. Your smartest recourse is to re-motherboard to a place where the dirty page limit borkage does not hurt as much, and in the process you will get a cheap hardware upgrade. Everybody will be happy, the sun will come out, the birds will sing. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/