Re: Swapping onto raid1 device?

1998-11-17 Thread Dan Bethe
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Louis Mandelstam wrote: > Anyone else running swapspace over RAID1? > > The reason why I'd like to do this in the first place, is that the box > involved needs serious uptime/HA, and I don't want to go to all the > trouble of RAIDing the system and data disks, just so a phys

Re: Improving RAID5 performance (what disks/configuration?)

1998-11-07 Thread Dan Bethe
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Stephen Costaras wrote: > I don't see how this would really help with general I/O performance, > the RAID code is in the kernel, plus with the RAID thread itself > taking less than 20% of the CPU (usually around 10%) I don't see this > as a processor issue but more of a hardwa

Re: Improving RAID5 performance (what disks/configuration?)

1998-11-07 Thread Dan Bethe
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Stephen Costaras wrote: > Seeing as we're all using RAID here, someone might know how to eek > better performance out of a I/O subsystem. You could try compiling your kernel and C library with pentium GCC. It's at www.goof.com/pcg and is stable at all optimiz

Need A Car? Bad Credit or No Credit stopping you? (fwd)

1998-11-05 Thread Dan Bethe
*sigh*. Do forged headers and non-resolving IP's legally qualify under the so-called proposed legislation? -- Forwarded message -- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by red.hex.net (8.8.8/8.8.7)

Re: Adaptec RAID controllers?

1998-10-30 Thread Dan Bethe
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, John Leach wrote: > I received the following from Adaptec a month ago when I emailed to > enquire > John Leach > > > Dear Customer, > At this time we do not provide Linux drivers for our adapters. > We are in the process of developing drivers however, the mode