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From: Chris Nicholls <chris@timico.net>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: IBM x345 Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon poor performance
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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 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?
This feels like the right track, I'll run memtest86 on it later tonight.

Regards

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