Maybe you guys can help me here. I used to have a Mandrake 8.1 box running as a server. It had amongst it things like Samba, Apache, Mysql, and sometimes a Counter-Strike server running on it. It would run until I rebooted it, so I rarely had problems with it. Recently I got a wild idea to try RH 7.2 to see if it would work better/worse than Mandrake. Same setup as above, although for some reason it doesn't seem to do good memory management. If some program uses a bunch of memory for a while, and then stops using it, the OS doesn't seem to go and claim it back as free memory. Eventually all the programs compalin that there's not a lot of memory left until I reboot. I end up having to do this almost every other day. Any ideas? TIA. JasonL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Burns" <jared-linux at mn.rr.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Which RAID Is better. > Detailed info here: http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html > > The view from 50,000 ft.: > Raid 0 gives you more throughput, costs nothing > Raid 1 gives you more reliability, costs storage space > Raid 5 gives you more throughput and reliability, costs storage space > > Figure out what you need (speed, reliability, or both) and choose accordingly. > > - Jared > > On Thursday 28 February 2002 02:37 pm, you wrote: > > Setting up a client PC. > > Their current Windoze server is going out the door. > > It has 4 20GB SCSI HD's in it. > > Currently it's setup so 3 of them are in a RAID-5 Configuration with the > > 4th as a Hot-Spare (They are all hot swapable). > > I've heard some cons against RAID-5, and that RAID-1 or other RAID options > > are 'faster' and better. IE with above only 1 drive can go bad at a time, > > with a max of 2, but only if the spare has been brought up completely > > before the 2nd fails...etc.. whereas other implementations can have 2 go > > bad at once have you, as long as they aren't each other's mirrors. > > > > Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > > > JasonL > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >