On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Ok, perhaps bad example. Pick any service that may get swapped out. Hell.. any bad block in any swap
> space that develops while that block is in use is going to cause a problem.
yup ... if you have an unstable system .. swapping things in and out of
memory and disks will cause you problems
> > swap ... swap partitions is by default checked for bad blocks during
> > formatting as swap ...
> > - it is highly unlikely that you'd get a bad sector in swap space
>
> Yeah? I have 3 hard disks sitting on my desk that say you are wrong..
that was my whole initial point a few days ago
-- get better hardware
-- get your hardware from another source
-- i do NOT have hardware problems ...
- i do NOT buy parts from mthe cheapest place
- i do NOT buy parts from people that i had bad parts
- i do get an occasional bad part, like the ibm deathstars are
infamous
- i do get an occasional 1% infant mortality rate ...
which is normal
- once a server has been up for say 30-60 days ... it stays
up for years ....
- given the same identical hard disks from different vendors/stores,
you will get different failure rates
- i use maxtor/quantum, ibm, western digital, seagates, fujitsu
( no one is better than the other disks, other than
( the stupid ibm deathstar problem
- how you install it
- how you cool it makes all the difference in the world
- think about it ...
== we all use the same motherboards
== we all use the same disks
== we all use the same memory
== we all use the same linux
== whats different ??
( where you bought yours from and more importantly,
( how you cool things down
- i do NOT have problems you guyz are having ....
and i've personally use thousnds of disks
=== get better hardware .. or more to the point ... buy from a
computer parts only tier-1 vendor ... not from the millions of me-too
online "we are the cheapest mom-n-pop we sell camera's and
clothes too webstores"
> I have a 250GB drive I just swapped out that was "growing" bad sectors at the rate of 3 per day that
> did a clean badblocks 5 months ago when it was installed.
you're buying bad hardware from bad vendors
c ya
alvin
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