[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a debian server with a 2.6.13.1 kernel and the 0.3.8 ivtv
driver with 2 PVR-350's, doing very many recordings each day (I have some
schedules that say: "record each show, but keep only the last" for a news
program that gets repeated quite often during the day. But hey, it lets me
watch the latest news whatever time I come home ;-).
The server is also running software RAID on 4 160GB disks, samba, apache2,
dbmail with a >2GB mail database, asterisk with mISDN, netbackup to backup
my laptop and other PC's to disk, a couple of php-based apps (such as an
online photo album), heyu2 for some X10 stuff and some vague app that lets
me use my Sony Mobile as a bluetooth remote for Myth (seriously cool).
Currently I have an uptime of:
18:06:53 up 4 days, 5:44, 2 users, load average: 0.60, 0.50, 0.23
But this is mostly because I upgraded my kernel from 2.6.11 to 2.6.13 last
sunday and of course this required a reboot.
For me the whole setup has been rock-solid for quite some time now with
uptimes of >2 weeks, usually only interrupted for a driver upgrade or
so...
I have found that upgrading memory from 512MB to 1GB has seriously
improved responsiveness, I now rarely have more then 64MB swapspace.
The whole thing is so stable, I do not use the tuner in my TV anymore (It
doesn't even have a coax cable connected to it).
However, if I enable HyperThreading in the BIOS (it's an Asus P4P800 with
a P4 3.0GHz), then it becomes a different story: playing a recording
hiccups (=it randomly pauses, can only be continued by doing a REW+FF),
and the box hangs after some time... I've read more bad things about HT
support under Linux on the P4P800, but only after I bought it :-((.
Wow. That sounds very similar to my setup. I run asterisk, apache2, mail
services, software
RAID 1, 2.6.13 kernel, etc... but I'm running Gentoo.
But that's on a different box from the one having the problems (I'm
looking to consolidate
the two boxes into one). The one having problems is a knoppmyth R5A16
system. 2.6.11 kernel.
Couple of questions for you:
Do you have preempt enabled in the kernel?
Do you have SMP enabled in the kernel?
(I think the KnoppMyth kernel has both of these, and I know my target
Gentoo machine
has both of these, so if you don't have them and I have problems,
removing them might
help a lot.)
Thanks!
--
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
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