Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:54:20 +0100 Chris Nicholls wrote: I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then it was a memory bank to blame. The server has been fine after replacing that bank. with no ECC machine it would simply crash. With

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Nicholls
On Monday, 1 June 2009 at K:49:59 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! sorry if it's stupod question but do you have softupdates enabled? Yeah, enabled I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Nicholls
On Tuesday, 2 June 2009 at K:54:43 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then it was a memory bank to blame. The server has been fine after

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
constantly doing ECC that's why it was damn slow. anyway - can hardware give any info for OS about how often ECC corrects errors? This feels like the right track, I'll run memtest86 on it later tonight. if i'm right memtest86 will not detect anything as too - all errors get corrected. for

IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Nicholls
Hello List I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. Initally I thought it was the disks causing the problem, but the general usage of the machine and

Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance

2009-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours to build a kernel! sorry if it's stupod question but do you have softupdates enabled? I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives etc for any hints to the reason why. Initally I thought it was the disks