[rescue] E250 temperatures

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Tue Apr 15 17:06:07 CDT 2008


On Monday 14 April 2008, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:44:21PM -0700, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> > I'd love to fire that beastie up again and fill up the empty SIMM
> > slots, maybe even add in the power supplies and 7 more system
> > boards from the other machine... The I/O cabinet has 7 disk trays
> > in it, with ~ 3 drives on each of 14 of those SCSI buses.  And lots
> > of fans. Enough upward airflow to put on some goggles and jumpsuit
> > and hover over the machine.  Can't do THAT with a T1000. :-)
>
> Yeah, I never feel like a machine is REALLY beefy unless it takes
> more than 10-15 minutes to run through a full diag boot (like the big
> Alpha boxes at $JOB-1).

"Fast boot" turned on, on my SP high nodes, takes about 20 minutes until 
it can boot.  Turned off, and doing a full test, figure more like 45 
minutes...

Pat
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