On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:02:00AM +0100, Mifsud Raymond at MITTS wrote: > Have implimented redhat linux advanced server 2.1 on two P3 Xeon servers. > Occassionally the servers goes into a cycle of sudden slowdown in performance. > An indication is that this may be connected to the number of processors on the > machine. This is being said because one of the machines has two processors > whilst the other has four processors. Although both suffer degradation in > performance but in the two processors machine it is less of a problem than the > four processor machine. > Best first pass analysis - run the "top" command during the slowdown to see which process is consuming most CPU time.
Also what time of day amd how oftem does the slowdown occur ? Finally - are you logging the CPU temperatures ? Some INTEL CPU's automatically reduce their clock speed when they get too hot to prevent damage from occurring. > This message may contain confidential information and is intended solely > for > the individual named. If you are not the intended recipient you should > not > disseminate, distribute or copy the contents of this e-mail. If you have > received > this message by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and > permanently > destroy both the message and its contents. The security, reliability of > delivery > and integrity of this e-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed as > information > could be modified in transit or may contain viruses. The sender, therefore, > does > not in any way accept any liability that may arise through this message. Please get rid of this disclaimer, its a waste of bandwidth and makes your company look clueless. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list