whb@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (wilson.h.bent..jr) (11/07/89)
In article <2623@brazos.Rice.edu> brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes: >We have 12 SparcStation 1's with nearly identical configurations. BUT, as >was pointed out by one of our users, 3 of them are slower than the rest. >Here's an example [ highly edited ] >atto: 2.6 real 2.4 user 0.1 sys >deca: 4.0 real 3.8 user (!) 0.1 sys We had a similar problem; it turned out that the slower machines had earlier revisions of CPU boards. No, I don't remember the rev. numbers, but if it helps, I've got the machine's serial numbers: Slow: 925F3928 926F0832 Fast: 926F0854 926F0893 This is based on experience; we complained about our slow machines, Sun sent us newer-rev CPU boards (which we installed - easy!), and they turned into fast machines. Side note: from what I understand, serial numbers can be decoded thusly: 925F3928 ^^ ^^----- "real" serial number (sequence number) || +------ Manufacturing location? Not sure. |+-------- Week-of-year (here, 25) +--------- Year minus 1980 (here, 1989) So from our machines, it looks as though somewhere between #832 and #854 they started using a new, faster CPU board. If you're still under warranty or have hardware support, you're in luck. Otherwise... Wilson H. Bent, Jr. ... att!hoh-2!whb (whb@hoh-2.ATT.COM) AT&T - Bell Laboratories HOH L-274A Holmdel, NJ 07733 (201) 888-7129
jeremy@kheops.cmi.no (Jeremy Cook) (11/13/89)
We have no way of determining whether we have fast or slow SPARCS as they all run at the same speed. Does anyone have a short program which we could run which would determine which type of CPU we have? -- Jeremy Cook (jeremy@kheops.cmi.no)
joe@uunet.uu.net (Joe Michel-Angelo) (11/20/89)
In article <2955@brazos.Rice.edu>, by jeremy@kheops.cmi.no (Jeremy Cook): > all run at the same speed. Does anyone have a short program which we could > run which would determine which type of CPU we have? The hostid of each machine is supposed to indicate the CPU/machine type. Not sure if sun is still living up to that convention, but in the older days, they were. If I remember correctly, the 1st byte is the cpu type, the second is the machine type. The appended shell script may be useful. Note that this script doesn't recognize a sparc-type cpu yet (since the script was written 2 yrs ago....), but i think the cpu type is 5 for sparc. just sample the output of `hostid` and you'll get the idea... someplace along the line, i belive the kernel config file also makes note of the machine type (# connection for machine type X), so, kernel config files are a source or further data for the attached script. Ed's Note: Script placed in archives. FTP: Hostname : titan.rice.edu (128.42.30.1) Directory: sun-source Filename : machtype.script Archive Server Address: archive-server@rice.edu Archive Server Command: send sun-source machtype.script