SQL chunk size

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Black
Hello, I am setting up an app server and want to maximize SQL performance as much as possible without hurting transfer of files 20-100k too much. I am running mysql 3.22.20a on a raid5 array with three 4GB disks and a chunk size of 128k I am running sql-bench now, concentrating on select perform

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-04-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:39:21 +0100, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Can it be a cabling fault? I thought that SCSI had parity > checking. Yes, it does, and all _decent_ scsi cards support it. Some old ones do not (especially ISA cards). --Stephen

Re: ckraid doesn't work ?

1999-04-06 Thread Erich J. Ritzmann
I had a similar experience and got around it using: ckraid --force-check --fix /dev/md0 I attributed to immature software that errs on the side of caution... If I recall I had a similar situation with ext2 in the early days. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Linux SMP Mlist wrote: > Hi, > > i have /d

Re: Applying raid patches onto 2.0.36

1999-04-06 Thread Benjamin de los Angeles Jr.
Download the vanilla kernel of 2.0.36 and patch from there. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Michael Mansour wrote: > Hi, > > I have attempted applying the raid-04etc patch (sorry, forgot the exact > name) onto the kernel 2.0.36 (rh5.2) with: > > cat raid-04etc | patch -p0 > > The patch stops at the buff

ckraid doesn't work ?

1999-04-06 Thread Linux SMP Mlist
Hi, i have /dev/sda3 a /dev/sdb3 in RAID1 array. I've run raidadd /dev/md0, raidrun /dev/md0 - OK. mount /dev/md0 - OK raidstop /dev/md0 - OK mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/ OK umount /mnt OK Now i've tried to start raid device but ... raidadd /dev/md0 OK raidrun /dev/md0 - > "raid1: detected m

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-04-06 Thread Richard Jones
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:28:25 +0100, Richard Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Not so fast there :-) > > > Mar 26 20:52:35 fred kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_free_blocks: >Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 550046767, count = 1

Applying raid patches onto 2.0.36

1999-04-06 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I have attempted applying the raid-04etc patch (sorry, forgot the exact name) onto the kernel 2.0.36 (rh5.2) with: cat raid-04etc | patch -p0 The patch stops at the buffer.c section. Is there anything wrong with what I am doing or is there other issues to this I don't know about. Thankyou

Re: WD hard drive raid-1 issues

1999-04-06 Thread Simo Varis
On Sat Apr 03 04:09:57 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i now give the kernel boot time args; ... > then it works fine, fdisk see the same as everyone else. I've had same with two identical SCSI drives. I just calculated which one gave more space and changed other one to those settings (using fdi

Re: Filesystem corrupted with SMP and Raid

1999-04-06 Thread anoah
have you considered an upgrade to 2.2.x ? i would be interested to see if problem persists. we are using newest raid code on several uni-proc boxes, no problems, even with very heavy load. we only using old raid code on SMP boxes. had considered upgrading to 2.2.x and new raid code on these. all