On 1/11/07, Thomas Swan <tswan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Mogens Kjaer wrote: >> Thomas Swan wrote: >> ... >>> On FC6 2.16.18-2869: >>> # time ( let X=0; while [ $X -lt 1000 ] ; do let X=$X+1 ; done ) >>> real 0m8.631s >>> user 0m8.385s >>> sys 0m0.203s >> >> This is not my experience: >> >> On FC6 x86_64 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6: >> >> real 0m0.014s >> user 0m0.013s >> sys 0m0.000s >> >> Note, this is the 64 bit FC6, acpi=off. >> >> It won't boot without acpi=off, BIOS >> is v1.06 > > I tried installing FC6 i386 on this box: > > 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6: > > real 0m0.017s > user 0m0.014s > sys 0m0.003s > > It also needs acpi=off in order to boot. > BIOS is still v1.06. > > Mogens > All of our HP DC7700 (1.86GHz processors) are having this problem. It will boot with no options to the kernel and with acpi=off. Defaults are turned on in the bios. After about 48 hours of uptime the speed improves by a little. 7 seconds instead of 8-10 to run the little test. Both on 64bit and 32bit FC6 installations.
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