Chris Samuel wrote:
----- "Bogdan Costescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Chris Samuel wrote:
1) Use a mainline kernel, we've found benefit of that
over stock CentOS kernels.
Care to comment on this statement ?
a) We found that we got better performance out of
the mainline kernels than the CentOS ones; we guess
because they handle newer hardware better (RHEL is
meant to aim for stability over performance)
Hadn't thought about this, but it makes a lot of sense.
b) We can use XFS for scratch space rather than being
tied to the RHEL One True Filesystem (ext3) which
(in our experience) can't handle large amounts of disk
I/O.
Mirrors our experience, too.
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