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Nathan_P

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So i powered down my 5670 rig today for a clean, put everything back togetehr and she booted up fine and is folding again but tpf's are way slower than normal. Went back into the bios and everything is ok there, downloaded i7z and cpu's are running at full speed. Killed the client and restarted to make sure that DLB engaged, which it did and then looked at top to see if i had started the client twice - i hadn't but noticed the following

Code: 
Tasks: 413 total,   1 running, 412 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.1%us, 13.5%sy, 86.4%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8185000k total,  2888076k used,  5296924k free,    69692k buffers
Swap:  7811068k total,        0k used,  7811068k free,   514148k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 1931 nathan     1  19 3195m 1.8g 3008 S 2393 22.7 255:16.04 thekraken-FahCo    
 1370 root       1   0  162m  46m 7752 S    2  0.6   0:54.91 Xorg               
  277 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.20 kondemand/0        
  279 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.75 kondemand/2        
  282 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.73 kondemand/5        
  287 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.41 kondemand/10       
  288 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.42 kondemand/11       
  289 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.75 kondemand/12       
  293 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.68 kondemand/16       
 1875 nathan     1   0  310m  17m  11m S    0  0.2   0:02.24 gnome-terminal     
 2626 root       1   0 15296 1208  928 S    0  0.0   0:00.19 i7z                
 2723 nathan     7   0 19556 1564  964 R    0  0.0   0:00.70 top                
 2728 root       1   0 93836 4248 3188 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 smbd               
    1 root       1   0 23872 2012 1296 S    0  0.0   0:04.64 init               
    2 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root       1   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 migration/0

the sy %age is up in double digits, usually its at 0.something% for the whole of a WU. Rebooted the machine and its still the same - anyone any ideas??
 
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Perhaps kernel got auto-upgraded and you're running a different one? (check if automatic updates are enabled, too...)

If you boot older kernel, does the issue persist?

What are your actual "good" and "bad" TPFs?
 
Kernel is still 2.6.35-30-generic-ck, which has been the same for the last 12 months

Automatic updates are off, and linux version is ubuntu 10.10

Good tpf's are 26-29 minutes on an 8101, current tpf's are 32:30. Machine was powered down mid wu - could that have anything to do with it
 
Not really, unless you lost a DIMM.

What does this return?
Code: 
grep MemTotal /sys/devices/system/node/node[0-9]*/meminfo

Also, I would consider booting stock (non-ck) kernel (for the sake of experiment).
 
tear said:
Not really, unless you lost a DIMM.

What does this return?
Code: 
grep MemTotal /sys/devices/system/node/node[0-9]*/meminfo

Also, I would consider booting stock (non-ck) kernel (for the sake of experiment).
Click to expand...

Looks like you hit the nail on the head - 2 of the dimms on node zero are not showing

/sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo:Node 0 MemTotal: 2096700 kB
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/meminfo:Node 1 MemTotal: 6282752 kB


Strange as the system normally halts on start up if i lose a dimm. Gonna try reseating them now and see what happens
 
Sorted, 2 of the dimms must not have been reseated properly in there slots.

Thanks Tear
 
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