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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:21:15 +0100
From: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
To: Song Zhao <song.zhao@nuix.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Supermicro X5DL8-GG (ServerWorks Grandchampion LE chipset) slow
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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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