Linux, gobs of RAM, RAID and performance suckage...

[Dave Johnson]

Bill McGonigle writes:
> I've forgotten some 2.4 stuff but there was a big-mem version of the  
> 2.4 kernel at one point to work around problems with "too much" RAM.

Ah, that's right. If you're going to run 2.4 with >1GB RAM you need to
apply the rmap patches or performance will get worse the more RAM you
have.  Severely so with >2GB.

Google says rmap patches are here, but the server is giving me a 403
at the moment.

http://www.surriel.com/patches/


-- 
Dave