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Rudi Ahlers wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:25:31 +0200:

> But, how can I put a LOT of load onto it, and see what's causing the
> problem

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Rudi Ahlers Hi all, I have a server, with an Intel DG35EC motherboard, Q9300 CPU, 8GB Kingston DDRII RAM which...

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John R Pierce 4 instances of mprime (www.mersenne.org), running the torture test, each set to affinity on a...

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Rudi Ahlers Next time I won't ask, don't worry

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Rudi Ahlers John, just cause the machines we use to serve web content to our clients doesn't use the grade of...

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John R Pierce ECC memory would have caught any memory errors, (including memory timing), and give a diagnostic...

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Rudi Ahlers John, I know what ECC does. I have 2 Dell PE860 servers with 8GB ECC DDRII RAM as well, and they're...

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Kai Schaetzl Rudi Ahlers wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:25:31 +0200:...

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Matthew Kent stress! Configured correctly it will abuse a server pretty hard...

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boisver...@videotron.ca Wow! Everybody doing serious business wouldn't go without it (i work for a couple of Banks and...

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Rudi Ahlers I wasn't rejecting server grade hardware. I was a bit irritated by the fact that I don't have...

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RobertH Rudi, dont be irritated. you can afford server grade hardware no prob. goto ebay and search for...

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Kai Schaetzl RobertH wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:03 -0800: And how does he squeeze that in 1U? AFAIR, Rudi's...

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RobertH Kai, it can be purcased and shipped to him, no biggie. you ask how does a DL380 G3 fit in 1U? not a...

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Kai Schaetzl A413A83E9A59C79A1C076@msys1> RobertH wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:09:58 -0800: Sorry, I overlooked...

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RobertH kai, dont be sorry, i miss things in email here and there too. im make more *general* mistakes than...

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Rudi Ahlers Hi Kai, It's as you stated, server grade hardware are a) rather expensive in South Africa, b) very...

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William L. Maltby Having watched all this thread, I note that certain things are not mentioned. Assuming that you...

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Rob Townley Does this system have shared video/system RAM? If you have video memory shared with system memory,...

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nate Wondering if you had heard of this project? I don't trust doing this sort of thing myself(paranoid)...

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Scott Silva This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --==============56222904=Content-Type:...

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John R Pierce I dunno about Dell, but most vendors, their own 'branded' hard drives have customized firmware...

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Rudi Ahlers This is interesting, thank you for letting me know :) Sun, IBM & HP servers in our country are far...

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Les Mikesell I'm confused. Aren't you the same person who just put together some stuff that doesn't work well -...

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Rudi Ahlers Yes, the motherboard ended up being faulty. But what I said here is from a different supplier. I...

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Les Mikesell I kind of lost track of this thread and missed any useful performance information if you posted it....

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boisver...@videotron.ca Hi Rudy, John is a veteran on this list and you could probably learn many things from him. I...

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Rainer Duffner http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp everything....) I'm not sure if 8 GB and non-ECC (and...

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Tru Huynh worse: Appendix System requirement Windows Memory Diagnostic is limited to testing only the first 4...

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Rudi Ahlers I don't use Windows, so this wouldn't have helped in anycase :)

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Rainer Duffner It's a boot CD... Rainer

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Rudi Ahlers Oh, my bad. I saw the microsoft.com URL :)

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Tru Huynh It's a diag floppy/cdrom, you don't need windows... except to expand it to the media. Read at least...

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Rudi Ahlers Tru, The hardware works, but the moment I start running server based application (i.e. XEN VPS's),...

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Rudi Ahlers Oh, and don't take this the wrong way, but the link to a microsoft related program (in my opinion)...

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Rainer Duffner SPEC 2006 Rainer...

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Ross Walker Or the LTP (Linux Test Project). -Ross

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Tru Huynh install sysstat and read the collected data with sar(1). Check for your IOwait. You don't provide...

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Barry Brimer Have you looked at Inquisitor? There is a nice article about it which includes a download link at...

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Filipe Brandenburger Hi Rudi, The problem you have is that the Load Average is too high? If that is indeed your problem,...

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Rudi Ahlers Hi Flippie, I have checked the BIOS settings, purely cause the new HDD was installed on a machine...

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David G. Mackay I seem to recall that one of the differences between AMD and Intel virtualization is that AMD chips...

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Rudi Ahlers Hi Dave, My experience & knowledge of AMD is limited, so I stick to what I know, Intel. The only...

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nate I think I mentioned this already but I use the Cerberus test suite...

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Rudi Ahlers Thanx nate, I'll check it out :)

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