Linux 2.4.4 folks

Hello linux-kernel, I've trying to move some of my servers to 2.4.4 kernel from 2.2.x. Everything goes fine, notable perfomance increase occures, but the problem is I'm really often touch the following problem: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation fai

Linux RAID5 issues.

Hello linux-kernel, I'm using software raid5 on about 30 servers, and Yet twice I had a serious data loss becouse of the behavior of linux RAID device. In several cases I've got more then one of drives completely disconnected. I have no ideas why this happened but this had something

Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ?

Hello linux-kernel, Does anyone have information on this subject ? I have the constant failures with system swapping on RAID1, I just wanted to be shure this may be the problem or not. It works without any problems with 2.2 kernel. -- Best regards, Peter mai

Re[2]: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ?

tition? Setting the swap priority to 0 (pri=0) in the fstab of all ND> the swap partitions on your system should have the same effect as doing ND> it with RAID but without the overhead, right? RAID1 would also mirror ND> your swap. Why would you want that? ND> Regards, ND> -Ni

__alloc_pages X-order allocation failed.

Hello linux-kernel, I'm trying to get stable running kernel from 2.4 series for about 3 months now, I thought it should become stable up to this time but it still not at least in VM area. I'm Testing various kernels from Linus, Alan, Andrea as well as some other patches provided but s