Pentium III

[Guest_imported]

Can some one give me some help please.
I have a Gateway ALR 8200 dual procesor (pentiumIII) 450Mhz Server on SCO Open Server 5.0.5.
When i run hw command i get:

CPU 1 performs like a 455Mhz Intel Pentium II
CPU 2 performs like a 455Mhz Intel Pentium II

Performace is slow compared to a compaq 1600 single procesor Server

How can i get SCO to recognize my Pentium III CPU???

Note: Same RAM on both Server Gateway.

 

[patw]

I wouldn't worry about HW id'ing PII's.

How much RAM is in the machine? Dual processors really need the RAM. 512 MB or more would be best.

Also, have you enabled sar and ran some sar reports to find where the bottlenecks are?

If you are unfamilar with sar - get 'sarcheck' - a sar analyizer that interprets sar output in 'english' and suggests changes.

http://www.sarcheck.com

 

[Nostradamus]

Have you installed the updates to 5.0.5?

The support level supplement (SLS) OSS471F "Intel Pentium Microcode Driver" is the one I´m thinking of the first.

It is intended for SCO 5.0.5 with Release Supplement 505A

You can find rs505a along with OSS471F on

http://www.sco.com

/Sören

 

[scooter6]

I believe this is a known bug in SCO...I have several servers with dual PIII 850's and they are also reported as PII when I invoke the 'hw' command.

The OSS471F does NOT correct this problem either. I have all the patches installed, etc. pursuant at least to what SCO says. I have searched and searched and can find no other 'supplements/patches' that will fix this.

I have 1GB of RAM on all of them as well, so I know that is not the problem.

I have performed 'system checks' and my speed is great...
so, I'm really not worried about it....typical SCO problem

scooter6

 

[Thanks]

Hey Scooter6 thanks for your input, it's nice to know that i'm not the only one. One question what tunable parametres did you modify???
Also when you run hw what hw command what is the Closk frequency ratio that you get??? i get 6
Again thanks for the help.

 

[scooter6]

The Clock Frequency I get is also 6 on this end.

I normally don't modify any of the tunable parameters with any of my servers. About the only thing I do is override
the driver on my NIC's to be forced at "Full Duplex/100" versus "Auto Detect"

I find that most NIC's when used on SCO servers aren't real good at 'auto-detecting' network connections.

hope that helps you out

scooter6