RHEL is NOT linux
Posted Oct 1, 2005 16:08 UTC (Sat) by
foo@share-foo.com (guest, #7940)
Parent article:
Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)
I find it interesting that he is using RHEL3 on IBM hardware. I had
similar problems. It seems the backported, dead-end, experimental IO
subsystem in the RHEL3 Frankenstein kernel stolen from 2.5 is fubared
somewhere. I had a dozen boxes of the x345 variety w/ 6i cards all with
similar problems. Basically all IO would lock from time to time. This
included terminal access so we couldn't get any dump info. Various
versions of the ips driver worked better or worse than others. Neither
IBM or RedHat could find fix or even reproduce the problem. Down grading
to a real linux kernel, 2.4.31, fixed the problem.
Moral of the story. RHEL3 isn't linux.
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