[Gllug] Anyone using Linux 2.6.0 on production system?

[James Bromberger]

Dale Gallagher (foobar at mighty.co.za) wrote:
> Is anyone using 2.6.0 on a production system?  Need to find out if it's
> wise to go this route, or to stick to 2.4.24.  Will be using Slackware
> 9.1 on an HP-DL380 with SmartArray 6402 RAID controller.  There was a
> performance report I found a few weeks ago on the Net which clearly
> showed enormous benefits in moving to 2.6.0 (this was pre- 2.6.0
> stable), showing how it whipped 2.4.x and all other *NIX Open Source
> OS's.  Busy trying to find that link again...
> 
> Any experiences, suggestions etc. re: 2.6.0 would be appreciated.

Behind several firewalls I have:
 $ uname -a
 Linux gargantuan.nas.private.net 2.6.0-testxx #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 11:23:19
 GMT 2003 i686 unknown
 $ df -HT
 Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/sda3     ext3    2.1G  378M  1.5G  20% /
 /dev/sda1     ext3    101M   17M   79M  18% /boot
 /dev/sda5     ext3    4.7G  3.3G  1.2G  72% /usr
 /dev/md5  reiserfs    3.5T  1.4T  2.1T  39% /mnt/big



Its a DNUK box with a good few disks.
	http://www.james.rcpt.to/2003/20030715-fotango/IMG_1793-p.jpg


Yes, thats 3.5 terabytes in a single partition. Thats why its a 2.6
kernel. And its been rock solid (except for 2.6.0-test6 or so). And if
this were an optertron I could go to 8 PB, whereas since this is a P4
box, I can only go to 16 T. 

So far, very happy with it. (plus, on my laptop, its been great since
before the textXX series.

  James
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