On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:02:00AM +0100, Mifsud Raymond at MITTS wrote:
> Have implimented redhat linux advanced server 2.1 on two P3 Xeon servers.
> Occassionally the servers goes into a cycle of sudden slowdown in performance.
> An indication is that this may be connected to the number of processors on the
> machine. This is being said because one of the machines has two processors
> whilst the other has four processors. Although both suffer degradation in
> performance but in the two processors machine it is less of a problem than the
> four processor machine.
> 
Best first pass analysis - run the "top" command during the slowdown
to see which process is consuming most CPU time.

Also what time of day amd how oftem does the slowdown occur ?

Finally - are you logging the CPU temperatures ? Some INTEL CPU's 
automatically reduce their clock speed when they get too hot to
prevent damage from occurring.

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