[CentOS] which kernel do people use?

[Leon Fauster]

Am 25.10.2013 um 13:47 schrieb Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>:
> On 25.10.2013 00:12, Lists wrote:
>> On 10/24/2013 03:48 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> On 10/23/2013 10:30 AM, Morgan Cox wrote:
>>> has someone quantified what this 'insane' amounts to ?
>> 
>> Going from HDD to SSD's gave us better than a 95% reduction in query
>> times for complex queries using PostgreSQL on otherwise identical
>> hardware. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it directly, for
>> myself.
> 
> That's great, but it's not an answer to what has been asked.
> Have you tried SSD based software raid on stock kernel and on 
> kernel-ml, have you noticed any big difference?
> 
> I guess there should be some difference, software raid is not capable 
> of TRIM in stock kernel, but I'm also not sure if a newer kernel is all 
> that's required, perhaps modifications to mdadm tool are also necessary.



saying that - what about general usage of non-stock / higher-version kernels. There 
is a non trivial dependence between kernel and userspace tools. Are there really no 
pitfalls, running e.g. a kernel 3.11 on EL6 (as stated http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt)?

Just curious. 

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LF