Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:51 AM, <fortin.pierre@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > > > We deployed centos 4.8 on HP DL380 G2, G3 and G4 servers (same number of > > cpus). The same software is running on all servers. > > > > Only on G2 servers we see a low cpu utilization combined with high > > load-average. > > > > For example, during the same time of day and same workload, on a G2 I see a > > l-avg of 11.31 and on a G4 I see 2.68. > > > > Make sure you have updated the G2 BIOS boxes. Some of the HP DL380's > had ACPI issues with NUMA memory causing 'phantom' loads as the system > took longer to page stuff. The box I dealt with was fixed with an > updated BIOS. If that doesn't work.. look at the various ACPI options > to tune the kernel. Right i had a similar problem with the 140G2 (or was it G1?) financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos