I've heard a little bit more information from Red Hat:The link to the kernel patch mentioned in http://froebe.net/blog/2013/06/17/does-anyone-have-any-details-on-redhat-linux-bug-891857/ does not give the full story about this kernel patch; as you ca...
I can assure you that the pushing is happening. Sadly, Linus has a very negative view toward O_DIRECT, hence the low priority.Also, there should be no risk of database corruption due to this issue, provided you accept the performance hit. For typic...
Jason has already verified that the THP bug exists in the latest kernel, but I thought I would explicitly confirm that the THP bug is still an issue for SA/IQ in RHEL 6.4 as well as SLES 11.2. Thus, it is still important for us to disable THP on the...
Good to hear. FWIW, we haven't had any luck reproducing this on either VMWare or XenServer based VMs. Only real hardware so far. Also, some file systems seem to be more prone to it than others. We've only really had luck reproducing it on ext3/ex...
