[tech] morwong NFS speed problem

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Jul 14 01:09:47 WST 2005


On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> Quoting James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>:
>
>> Currently only running on one CPU as the fans on the second are not
>> working. Also morwong is currently half out of the rack, and there is a
>> CPU on the floor - please be careful if you are going into the machine
>> room. I will clean this up tomorrow night, as it is far past 11pm now.
>
> When you say CPU on the floor, you mean an EV7? There are three spare 
> fans on a spare set of cowls. Failing that, it looks like a fairly bog 
> standard fan, I'm sure we can order more of them.
>
> Rather then changing over the whole cowl, it proved easier for me to just
> unscrew and change the fan on melanopus. YMMV.

Yeah, that seemed to be the easiest way. New fans installed and the CPU 
reinsterted.

> Will we run into dodgy licensing issues running on two CPUs? I have no 
> idea how Tru64 is licensed.

Well, I can get 200% cpu usage according to top, so I assume that both are 
working.

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