LinuxWorld.com - The kernel of pain. For large servers, the 2.4 kernel has been a disaster.
Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Thursday January 17 2002 @ 07:18AM EST
"Let's start from the beginning. In July 2001, I was responsible for upgrading a customer's server from Red Hat 6.2 to Mandrake 8.0. The machine was built from scratch, and Mandrake was installed onto a freshly formatted RAID 5 array. We then migrated the Red Hat 6.2 applications to the new machine.
After a little configuration, the machine seemed to run fine. We successfully migrated the entire system in less than five hours. Considering this was a large-scale server, that was quite a feat and was certainly welcomed by our paying customer."
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