Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:31:40 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Remington L <mrl0lz@gmail.com>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: pkg_add is driving me NUTS! Message-ID: <200606221031.41033.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <449A454A.5070107@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <fe18b2280606211955m68192e64o57cd093de0eae558@mail.gmail.com> <449A454A.5070107@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:22, Björn König wrote: > Remington L schrieb: > > I have two servers, exact same hardware, exact same version of FreeBSD, > > in this case 4.10. When I run pkg_add blah.tbz on one machine, it takes > > between > > 2-8 hours, on the other 8-10 minutes. These machines are quad-Intel > > 2.8Xeons, with 4GB of memory. > > > > Ive done everything from running make world, to md5ing pkg_add, bzip2, > > and tar, there identical. > > > > I noticed on the one thing, on the machine that takes forever, bzip2 is > > only > > using 1-3% load, while the other, which does work, takes 100%. I have SMP > > compiled into the kernel, well actually, there both using the exact same > > kernconf. > > > > Anyone have ideas?? > > I would try to encircle the problem. Try to compress and decompress > idendical random data with bzip2 on both machines. Try also the GENERIC > kernel without SMP. At a glance I would assume that there is a hardware > fault. Yes that, or perhaps medium problems? anything interesting from dmesg(8)?
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