Hi All
Sorry that I am bothering you about this but I am a little lost and a
little desperate. I have an new AMD athlon + RAID 0 on it. We have been
using raid0 since about 1996 or 1997 and I have just changed the setting
to use the new RAID which comes with RedHat linux 6.0 - kernel 2.2.5-15
little realizing that they are very experimental and totally incompatible
with the original version. It also comes with raidtools 0.90. Now this
raid works OK but I have the
problem that I want to upgrade to a kernel that better supports the AMD
i.e. 2.2.14 but a raid patch does not exist for this kernel yet. When I
apply what seems to the the latest patch (for kernel 2.2.11) to
linux-2.2.14 I get a lot of errors and some reject files.
One of the reasons that I am trying to upgrade is because the performance
of the RAID 0 array does not seem to be as good as the previous RAID
version when more than 4 people are using the array. Previously I was able
to have have at least 20 people seriuosly accessing a database on the raid
array with no real loss of performance. Now I find that after more than 4
people start accessing the array - then performance starts dropping and
some people are not able to do anything except restart when the machine
is less busy. I suspect that this could also be due to the AMD athlon chip
hence the kernel upgrade - let me rephrase until I know otherwise I
suspect that it is the AMD chip. However, I do not have an alternative
for it.
Anyway the question is:
and who can I mail about a version upgrade of the patch or some guidance
about it.
and is there any alternative solution - getting rid of raid is not an
option.
THanks in advance
Manuel
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