Re: ext3 block size

It was RH8 where I saw the issues.  It was so bad that I had one server
freeze 20 minutes after reboot. And it wasn't a hardware issue; that
server is now running with several months of uptime under heavy load.

Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

>What distribution are you running?  I and a lot of other people use RH8 on
>multiprocesor boxes, and it works great!
>
>Jon
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>On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, DeJuan Jackson wrote:
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>>Don't know the answer to your question, but I thought I would just pipe
>>in and say that if this is an SMP (has multiple processors) Linux box
>>you don't want to use ext3!!!
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>>I used ext3 on my SMP box here at work and now I can't have children (I
>>guess it would help if I got a wife first)!!
>>But in all seriousness SMP + ext3 = BAD(unpredictable crashes depending
>>loosely related to system load).
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>>Wilson A. Galafassi Jr. wrote:
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>>>hello.
>>>my database size is 5GB. what is the block size recommend?
>>>thanks
>>>wilson
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