Performance Problem on a Poweredge R510 server

Question

Hi, thx in advance for those who will be kind enough to read my story :)

Recently buy a DELL Poweredge R510 for one of my customers here are the specs :

2xIntel Xeon processors (X5670)

32 GB Ram (2x16)

8x450 GB HDD

H200 Controller (Yes i know :))

After installing Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, I was having some freeze while using the server. each 8 seconds, the server will froze for 1/4 sec and so on... I've tried everything including :

-Removing one of my two CPUs

-Removing 3 of my 4 memory sticks.

-Removing 7 of my eight hard drives.

-Putting all the firmware (server / raid controller) up to date

-Putting all the drivers (VGA / network / chipset / RAID) up to date.

-Putting all the updates from Windows Update.

Nothing work ... It's better when the drivers are upgraded.. but not so well.

then I have tried an ultimate test : Windows Server 8 Beta (Build 8250)

When I'm installing it : NO PROBLEM .... Copying files ay 130 Mb/s over the network and, after rebuilding two RAID 10 on the H200, around 300 Mb/s in copy between the two RAID array ..

Back to server 2008 R2, still have problems...

Please help me to understand :(

YouuShiii · Answer

Hi, This has already been suggested by the dell hotline. No problem under CentOS :( BR

DELL-Chris H · Answer

Youu Shiii,

It could be a number of things. Lets try a couple.

This is a link to 32 Bit diags, it will assist you in creating bootable media to run diags on. -

After running those let me know of the results.

Then boot to this ISO, it is OMSA LIVE - linux.dell.com/.../OMSA65-CentOS6-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso

What we will do from the OMSA live GUI is to see if the freezing occurs outside of the Windows Server Environment.

Let me know the results.

PowerEdge Hardware General

Performance Problem on a Poweredge R510 server

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