on 3-24-2009 7:30 AM Greenseid, Joseph M (IS) spake the following: >> Can you swap the disk drives with a node that works OK? > > i will try that when i get back to the data center and can swap the nodes. > > >> Have you compared BIOS setups? Something tells me this is like >> interrupts related. Could even be poorly seated hardware: memory, power >> or data cables, video, etc. >> >> IIRC, BIOS settings can also have an effect there. > > all the bios were flashed to the same version and configured the same > before we started with these systems. > > something must be wrong with the node for it to run slow, but i just > didn't understand how top was showing such weird output. > > thanks for the suggestions. > Could it be something more simple like a memory module in the wrong slot causing the system to not page-interleave the ram? I have had this happen when I depended on others to set up multiple systems. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090324/59ead51c/attachment-0003.sig>