Hello
We have a HP DL380 G7 server with 5 disk of 500 GB HP SAS MDL 6G. I installed SLES10 SP3 and configure it with one small partition of 30 GB (for root) and another for /home with the rest of the disk (2.2 TB).
My problem is that the system freezes very frequently, 5-10 times at day. But I have another server (the same) with only one disk of 500 GB and there is no problem with it. Do you know if SLES has a limitation with big partitions or something like that?
Thanks a lot for your help
On 06/28/2012 07:04 AM, sspj wrote:[color=blue]
Hello
We have a HP DL380 G7 server with 5 disk of 500 GB HP SAS MDL 6G. I
installed SLES10 SP3 and configure it with one small partition of 30 GB
(for root) and another for /home with the rest of the disk (2.2 TB).
My problem is that the system freezes very frequently, 5-10 times at
day. But I have another server (the same) with only one disk of 500 GB
and there is no problem with it. Do you know if SLES has a limitation
with big partitions or something like that?Thanks a lot for your help
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Are you really using partitions? Or are you using LVs?
Because DOS style partitioning can have limitations… you could use GPT/GUID
style partitioning to avoid… and a somewhat new box like above should have no
problem with that… but in general, I find that LVM is your best friend.
At 2.2TB… you’re at that edge where DOS partitioning starts breaking down…
Indeed. My advice is to split the RAID array into two pieces with HP array management tools (whichever is supported on your server, smartstart cd, etc.)
The first on can have a size of 30-50 GiB and you can partition it (/dev/c0d0) like a DOS device. Use GPT or LVM on the other one (/dev/c0d1).