On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 14:37 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > > SWAP inside LVM is fine in my experience. Personally I consider this a > > benign error and generally ignore it unless the mismatch count is very high > > And how do I know all these mirror data mismatches are Swap? does not > each mismatch mean the mirrors disagree, which means one of them is > wrong. Which one? since they aren't timestamped or checksummed (like > vxvm, zfs do), I am playing 'data maybe'. As someone who adminstrates > database servers, i have a real problem with that. > > btw, this is centos 5.4+latest x86_64, its primarily running postgres, > and our inhouse java middleware apps. and was going to be a oracle grid > operations server. ---- Then any reason to not run the PERC in the 2850? Non of my DB machines run SWAP period. My thoughts on Linux swap is if I were to use it, it can't keep up the sync pace, been there. I realize I say no swap but with MS DesktopEngine and SQL-CEServer I use swap. John