Re: Slow lmbench on IBM Netfinity

Paul Ho (pH7@w3com.com)
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:43:19 -0500


Thanks for the reply. /proc/cpuinfo show 2 cpu with reasonable BogoMIPS.
However, 2nd cpu show up as processor 2. i.e. I have processor 0 and 2.
Is this normal?

Paul

(This is a IBM Netfinity 7000, 700 was a typo)

At 11:33 PM +0100 12/08/99, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 04:56:31PM -0500, Paul Ho wrote:
>> This is an IBM Netfinity 700 with 2x PPro 200MHz 1MB cache, running
>> Linux 2.2.13 in SMP.
>> The system boot up with no problem. It's AFAICT stable but very slow.
>
>We had a simular problem on a SMB-system - apperently because the bios
>only initialized one of the processors.
>
>You can verify this by looking in /proc/cpuinfo. In our case the
>bogo-mibs indicators indicated that something was seriously wrong with
>one of the processors in our case.
>
>If you are experiencing the same problem, enabling MTRR (or something
>like that) will make it go away.
>
>
>
>Ragnar Kjørstad

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