From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 11:02:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD0910656B8 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:02:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@timico.net) Received: from relay.timico.net (relay1.mail.as8607.net [62.121.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B13E8FC27 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:02:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@timico.net) Received: from atsuko.keme.net ([62.121.1.23]) by relay.timico.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MBRl8-0005zX-LO; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:02:22 +0100 Received: by atsuko.keme.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EE3D04AC0D; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:01:43 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:01:43 +0100 From: Chris Nicholls To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20090602110143.GE33990@atsuko> References: <20090601185419.GA92199@atsuko> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:02:25 -0000 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 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 disk I/O is pretty snappy just seems to be CPU > >intensive operations where things seem to lag. > > caches disabled? Disk I/O seems fine, and i'm getting good rates when testing with dd and iostat, gstat show what i'd expect. I Initally thought it was the disks but that was due to issues with getting the RAID controller working correctlly which was sovled with the use if the IBM RAID tools cd. Regards -- _ Chris Nicholls ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Timico Network Operations - against HTML, vCards and X chris@timico.net - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \