Hey Dax.. say hi to Bryan for me.. and tell him he got the 40th digit of
PI wrong.
Can you give the complete listing of the machines and I mean a COMPLETE
listing.. We had something like this with newer hardware but found that
we had two different revisions on Disk BIOS's. One set of machines were
just plain slower by 1+ rotations of the drive... (I only know this
because the guy who helped build 360's here worked out the speed
differences to being an average of 1-3 disk drive rotations if the drive
was really 7200 RPM).
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:35, Dax Kelson wrote:
We have a room full of *identical* boxes that we have run Red Hat
Linux
classes (6.x, 7.x, 8.0 and 9) on over the past 4 years. These are
500Mhz Intel 440BX motherboard boxes.
No problems until RHL9 came out. On about 50% of the machines (identical
hardware remember, including BIOS settings) kernel system calls on RH
2.4.20 kernels run about 4x - 10x slower.
Of course with this problem the whole system runs dog slow and is
painful to use.
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