Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 and MySQL

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"tim" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It appears that the Linux kernel 2.2.14 has a bug that causes a problem
with
> MySQL. My RAQ4 is running 2.2.14C11. Does anyone have any additional
> information about this? Unfortunately, I can't easily upgrade right now.
>
> http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html
> "Linux Advisory: Several of our users have reported random table
corruption
> with Linux kernel 2.2.14 under heavy load. The table corruptions went away
> after an upgrade to a newer kernel. It appears that version 2.2.14 of the
> Linux kernel has a bug in the I/O implementation. Under some rather rare
> circumstances, the kernel will write incorrect data to the disk."

I've run MySQL versions as new as 3.23.48 on production RaQ4 servers (and v4
beta on development) with no problems.  A few of the machines were under
what I'd consider to be heavy load.  I'm not saying you won't have problems,
just that I haven't had any.

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