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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:22:50 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Remington L <mrl0lz@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_add is driving me NUTS!
Message-ID:  <449A454A.5070107@cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <fe18b2280606211955m68192e64o57cd093de0eae558@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fe18b2280606211955m68192e64o57cd093de0eae558@mail.gmail.com>

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Remington L schrieb:
> I have two servers, exact same hardware, exact same version of FreeBSD, in
> this case 4.10. When I run pkg_add blah.tbz on one machine, it takes 
> between
> 2-8 hours, on the other 8-10 minutes. These machines are quad-Intel
> 2.8Xeons, with 4GB of memory.
> 
> Ive done everything from running make world, to md5ing pkg_add, bzip2, and
> tar, there identical.
> 
> I noticed on the one thing, on the machine that takes forever, bzip2 is 
> only
> using 1-3% load, while the other, which does work, takes 100%. I have SMP
> compiled into the kernel, well actually, there both using the exact same
> kernconf.
> 
> Anyone have ideas??

I would try to encircle the problem. Try to compress and decompress 
idendical random data with bzip2 on both machines. Try also the GENERIC 
kernel without SMP. At a glance I would assume that there is a hardware 
fault.

Björn



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