Re: Supermicro X5DL8-GG (ServerWorks Grandchampion LE chipset) slow

From: Jurriaan (thunder7@xs4all.nl)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 05:21:15 EST


From: Song Zhao <song.zhao@nuix.com.au>
Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:34:28PM -0500
> Hi,
>
> I've been doing some benchmarks with this board, it is terribly disppointing.
> Has anyone had similar experiences?

How many people do you guess own such hardware? Not me :-(

>
> The hardware spec is:
> Dual 2.8GHz Xeon, 3ware Escalade 7850 (7500-8) 12 port IDE RAID controller,
> RAID 10, 4x 1GB DDR SDRAM Registered ECC, 2x 80GB WD HDD, 10x 120GB WD HDD,
> ServerWorks Grand Champion LE.
>
> I am running RH7.3 with 2.4.20 kernel. The performance of this box is about
> half of an almost identical box (Supermicro X5DP8-G2 mobo, E7501 chipset)

what does

cat /proc/mtrr

say?

>
> Also, this board can't even boot with 8x 1GB memory modules plugged in (8 DIMM
> slots in total). This is a relative new board and I can't find anything
> relevant on the net.
>
"can't boot" as in crashes halfway during linux or doesn't even start
lilo?

HTH,
Jurriaan

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