Brice, Thanks for the advice, I may have gotten lucky. During POST it clearly shows 4 nodes, Node 0, Node1 Node 2 and Node 3 with nodes 0 and 3 marked N/A. Have sent a screenshot of that to HP.
jbh On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote: > We don't need any other info on the hwloc side. And we thank you for > testing the big hwloc warning code :) > > For HP: > * If you're lucky, the BIOS may talk about the number of NUMA nodes > (either on the usual messages during boot, or in the BIOS configuration > menu). See if it says 2 on the broken node instead of 4 on other nodes, > you have something easy to tell HP. > * Otherwise we'll have to dig in the SRAT ACPI info. "dmesg | grep SRAT" > should talk about some "PXM" properties, which are basically NUMA > localities. You should see PXM 1 and 2 on the broken node, and PXM 0, 1, > 2 and 3 on the other ones. SRAT comes from ACPI, if SRAT is broken, the > hardware/firmware is buggy. > > Brice > > > > > Le 30/05/2012 21:06, John Hanks a écrit : >> I updated the BIOS and still got the error on this host, then I did >> what I should have done in the first place and checked another >> physically identical host. Of the 4 nodes I have that are the same, >> only this one exhibits the error. At this point I'm blaming a hardware >> problem, if there's any benefit to hwloc for me to send additional >> debugging information I am happy to, otherwise I'm going try to figure >> out how what to say to HP to get this node fixed. >> >> Thanks, >> >> jbh >> >> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM, John Hanks <john.ha...@usu.edu> wrote: >>> I recently inherited these machines and would bet small amounts of >>> hard currency they have never seen a BIOS update since birth. I'll >>> figure out how to update the BIOS and let you know if the error >>> persists. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> jbh >>> >>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: >>>> On May 30, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>>> >>>>> i.e. the kernel reports that socket 0 is completely in node 1, while >>>>> socket 1 is half in node 1 and half in node 2. Do you have more >>>>> information about what the machine actually contains socket- and >>>>> NUMA-wise? The dell website is not really felpful, it talks about 4-16 >>>>> cores for the DL165 G7, while you have 24. >>>> >>>> How old is your Dell BIOS firmware? You might need to update it. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jeff Squyres >>>> jsquy...@cisco.com >>>> For corporate legal information go to: >>>> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> hwloc-users mailing list >>>> hwloc-us...@open-mpi.org >>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-users >> _______________________________________________ >> hwloc-users mailing list >> hwloc-us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-users > > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-users mailing list > hwloc-us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-users
