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Cc: Chris Nicholls <chris@timico.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance
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>> 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 ECC - it was probably 
constantly doing ECC that's why it was damn slow.

anyway - can hardware give any info for OS about how often ECC corrects 
errors?