Re: Software updates

[Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>]

Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> VA has finally released (actually a few weeks ago) a more recent kernel
> which has a lot of performance improvements for SMP/Apache boxes.
I'll have to get a copy.  I had a LOT of problems with SMP recently,
but they seem to be fixed in the 2.2.13 pre series (I baselined
about a dozen systems a week or so before 2.2.13 was officially
released).
> 
> Anyways, on the same note, anyone have an opinion on Vodka (single
> PII-450)?  Anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of a 2.2.x based
> kernel on a single CPU system?  
No idea...

>VA included the lastest RAID patches with
> 2.2.12 (yes I know 2.2.13 is out, but I haven't seen a reason to try to
> use the VA patches on a 2.2.13 kernel).
My experience is that 2.2.12 is OK for UP boxes (it still has a memory
leak, I believe), but 2.2.12 is NOT stable for SMP.  2.2.12 also
has some nasty NFS lockups.  During extensive testing somewhere
around 2.2.13pre8, SMP became stable for me (I have 2 dual PII 300 boxes
and
2 dual PIII/450 boxes -- all were crashing until pre8 or so and now
all are still running pre15 with ikd and kdb patches).

> Anyways, I'll be planning the kernel upgrade on Yukon and possibly Vodka.
> I'll give plenty of warning via email before I switch over- probably next
> weekend.  If anyone has any special needs/thoughts/concerns, now is the
> time to voice them.
Go for it....

Cheers,
-- 
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