Questions tagged [intel]
This tag should be used for questions about Intel based server platforms, software and others related specifically to hardware and software from the Intel Corporation.
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Unexpected and unexplained slow (and unusual) memory performance with Xeon Skylake SMP
We've been testing a server using 2x Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs with a Supermicro X11DPH-I motherboard, and 96GB RAM, and found some very strange performance issues surrounding memory when compared to ...
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cpu clock drops under load
So I have this Dual Intel Silver 4116 CPU server that will set the MHz to 132 randomly, the server becomes unusable after that point. Even reboots don't restore the MHz, only driving to the data ...
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Coexistence of Intel AMT and AMD DASH in SCCM 2012 R2
I'm wondering if it's possible to use Intel AMT and AMD DASH plug-ins in SCCM 2012 R2 to out of band manage clients?
I've successfully implemented the Intel AMT plug-in, now I'm wondering if I can ...
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Are the i40e and ixgbe drivers really used by our Intel NICs?
We recently got two QCT 2U4Node high-density servers. Each node is equipped with a XL710 dual 40G NIC with two QSPF+ ports and two QCT mezz cards that sport Intel 82599 and dual 10G SPF+ ports for a ...
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interpreting cpuinfo
I have to figure out what kind of cpu my HS20 have. Its /proc/cpuinfo output is below. Is that mean It has two IntelXeon units with two cores each ?
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
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VAAPI on headless system
We run a hosted box with Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630. We have there Debian Buster with i965-va-driver-shaders and intel-media-va-driver-non-free installed. We are able to do hardware-accelerated ...
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Intel Driver & Support Assistant installs Root CA into Trusted Root CAs
The Intel Driver & Support Assistant (DSA) appears to install a Root CA certificate into the Trusted Root CAs of Windows 10 Pro. DSA was installed in 2018.
Sysinternals sigcheck reports:
Listing ...
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Transfer Speed Sudden Drop on Intel Raid Card between (2) 4 SSD Raid 0 Arrays
Preface; I have done hours of trouble shooting on this issue and simply cannot find out what the sudden "bottleneck" is.
I have (2) 4 SSD Disk Raid 0 Arrays (3.8TB Each).
They are run off a single ...
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How to remove a dmraid RAID1 member (mark as faulty)?
I have RHEL 6.8 installed on a fake Intel RAID1 (Intel Matrix). It's managed by dmraid, consists of sda and sdb and the device name is /dev/mapper/...
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Isn't setting "Number of RSS queues" to "1" pointless?
If I understand RSS (Receive Side Scaling) correctly, the src/dst IP+port combos of incoming UDP and TCP packets get hashed, and the packet gets distributed into the available RSS queues using that ...
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How to recover an Intel RAID 0 on a Rocks cluster distribution
We had a Rocks 5.5 distribution on our cluster and wanted to upgrade to 6.2. The "/export" partition was mounted on a Intel software RAID 0 array of 2 identical hard drives (HD) (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc)...
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What happens to a random bit error in the cache on an Intel CPU?
I have a system with ECC RAM and a Xeon E3 CPU.
My understanding is that ECC circuits on the RAM will detect corruption from random bit errors in the RAM chips.
But what happens to random bit errors ...
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Wireshark (WinPCap) does not see Intel X520-DA2 10 GbE NIC teaming intermittently
I am running a team of two 10 GigE ports on Intel X520-DA2 network card. They work well in tandem and achieve the desired throughput. However, I see an intermittent issue whereby WireShark and my ...
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RAID-5 read speed is very slow
I have windows 11 pro for workstation and use 2 RAID-5 volumes for storage (nvme group and ssd group). The read speed for the nvme group is around 2220 MB/s and the write speed is around 170 MB/s. SSD ...
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Is it possible to disable and re-enable on-board PCI devices in Linux?
So as the title suggests, Is there a way I can disable and re-enable PCI devices or on-board devices on Linux using Terminal like the disable and enable device functions in Windows' Device Manager. I ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Hangs On Reboot (sometimes)
I have an Intel NUC NUC8I7HNK which I have installed Ubuntu on. If I reboot the system and then reboot it again everything is fine. Reboots without problem.
However, if I let the system sit for a ...
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What is the actual meaning of a "C" suffix in a 2nd generation Scalable Xeon CPU (Platinum, Gold, etc)
I have an HP Z6 Workstation with a Xeon Gold 6253CL CPU (purchased from eBay) and I would like to upgrade it to a dual-CPU configuration. I have added the 2nd CPU riser card but, for selecting the ...
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X710 and mlx5_core together on same server
I have a amd server with centos 7.9
I am trying to using the the kernel driver for 2 cards:
Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572 --> i40e
MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5] 1017' --> mlx5_core
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NIC ports going offline just by touching the cables slightly
A while ago we discovered an issue with most of our NICs in the data center - touching the cables just leads to the ports of the NICs going offline for a couple of seconds. All the NICs are Broadcom ...
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Server not booting up with Intel S2600CP4 server board, No Motherboard Error beeps either
We have a Intel S2600CP4 Server board fitted inside a brand new Chenbro server Chassis. One CPU slot on the Motherboard is populated with Intel E5-2695V2. Other slot is left empty, but both CPU power ...
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Intel Skylake Gold 6154 CPU genuine or Engineering Sample? Intel Diagnostic tool passes but CPU-Z and HWInfo shows "ES"
I am testing a GPU Compute Server (ASUS ESC8000 G4) with 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs and I ran the newest version of the Intel Diagnostic Tool (IPDT, Version 4.1.4.36.W.MP) and the tool passes all ...
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Intel DH895XCC Series QAT and ZFS (2.0.0) - custom initramfs with dracut
We would like to run ZFS with QAT offloading for compressions and checksums.
The distribution is Centos 8.2 with the stock kernel:
[root@dellqat ~]# uname -a
Linux dellqat 4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64 ...
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Debian 10 and Intel I350 - Interfaces disabled after boot
I have a server with an Intel i350 quad nic on the motherboard (SuperMicro X9DRi-LN4F+).
This server ran in production for many years no problems (Debian 9).
Recently, I moved the server to a new ...
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"Error occurred starting IDE-R" using Intel Manageability Commander
I'm attempting to mount an .ISO file to a remote server using Intel Manageability Commander on a Lenovo TS440 ThinkServer. I've got the system configured to use Intel AMT, and I've enabled everything ...
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Proxmox 5.2 Gemini Lake and IGD (graphics) pass through for Ubuntu 18
I’m trying to set up a fresh install of Proxmox 5.2 on Gemini Lake and I would like to configure a VM with IGD (graphics) passthrough for Ubuntu 18
Computer-based on ASRock J4105-ITX asrock.com/mb/...
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mixing Intel CPU of same FCLGA socket type and scalability?
I have a 4 socket server, calling for FCLGA 2011-3.
It was built using four Intel E5-4667v3 (16 cores).
If one cpu fails, can it be replaced with one E5-4667v4 (18 cores) and still work with the 3 ...
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Memcpy bandwidth ~1.6x faster on 1 vs 2 socket Intel Scalable (Skylake)?
I'm in the process of porting a complex performance oriented application to run on a new dual socket machine. I encountered some performance anomalies while doing so and, after much experimentation, ...
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Low random read IOPS intel dc s4500
i have very bad read performance on my new intel ssd.
My configuration is:
HP proliant DL360e gen8 with Smart Array P222 controler.
Intel ssd dc s4500 960GB
64GB ram
2x Intel cpu
I have 2x SAS HDD ...
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Rackable Systems S5000PSL does not boot: 3 beeps, no post
I have 6 Rackable Systems 1u servers, each with 2x4GB PC2 5300.
3 of them would boot and POST successfully, and the other 3 would not POST. Instead, these three would beep 3 times, indicating a ...
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Replace failed RAID 1 Drive on Intel Platform
Good afternoon, I have a Intel Server running Windows 2008 R2 Standard. It has a RMS25PB080 Raid controller card in with. It has two logical drives, a RAID 1 and a RAID 5. The one harddrive on the ...
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How is Intel's Remote Management Module (RMM4) different from Supermicro's IPMI/BMC?
I am new to IPMI BMC (always used KVM) and I would like to understand what are the differences between Intel's implementation on IPMI BMC using its RMM4 module and that of Supermicro?
I've read ...
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Disabling bypass mode on Intel NICs
I'm trying to install PFSense on some decommissioned firewall gear. I've installed PFSense just fine, except for the two NICs are stuck in bypass mode. I don't see any options in the BIOS to edit ...
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Super Micro Model 827-16 -> CentOS 6 RAID Controller driver
I have a Super Micro model 827-16 (part no: 6027TR-HTRF+) and need to get CentOS 6 installed. The problem is that I haven't been able to confirm if there are CentOS specific/supported RAID drivers ...
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Are 2Rx4 DDR2 ECC memories compatible with Intel Xeon on socket LGA771?
For my Intel Xeon L5420 (LGA771) I bought 24GB of DDR2 ECC Reg, 2Rx8, knowing that 2Rx4 are specific to AMD chipsets or, at least, the non-ECC ones are.
However, this slick seller instead sent me ...
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NUMA enabled but can't detect node
I have a Centos 6.4 (kernel 2.6.32) machine with 2x Intel X5670 (Westmere) in a SuperMicro X8DTG-D motherboard with 2.0a BIOS version. BIOS Settings for ACPI are:
ACPI Aware O/S: Enabled
APCI Version ...
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external mSAS expansion
I got two servers. One with a Intel RS2MB044 and one with an Adaptec ASR-51245, both got an external mSAS connector.
I need to connect these tho servers together, basically to share the file system ...
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intel MFSYS25 blade server- trunk port configuration
Can any one help me configure the Intel blade MFSYS25 switch module to communicate to Cisco devices through trunk? I tried for many hours, seems it doesn't work! There seems to be no documentation on ...
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Ubuntu Only Utilizes One Link in 802.3ad
I am currently using an Intel PRO/1000 PT LP Quad Port Server NIC with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server 64 Bit. I installed Gnome so I have a GUI.
I downloaded bmon 2.0.1 to monitor the network, and right now ...
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Windows 2008 64bit driver for Intel PRO/1000 PM?
I'm trying to upgrade the network adapter's driver on my windows 2008 dedicated server to the latest version. I checked in the device manager and I see two network adapters, Intel PRO/1000 PL and ...
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No ethernet connection on Intel® X722 10GBase-T Ethernet Controller on Ubuntu-Server 18.04 and 22.04
I'm trying to connect a server with installed Ubuntu-Server to the Internet via Ethernet cable with no success.
Here is the link to the platform we use - https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/...
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Network card not providing maximum throughput Ubuntu server
I have a server in OVH.
My server is able to deliver 1gbps, I make sure it's actually can deliver this in their rescue mode.
When the system is up to the Ubuntu layer, the performance drops to ~...
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Advanced tab missing in Network Adapter properties after installing 28.2 version of Network Adapter Driver
I recently updated my Intel X540-AT2 Network Card on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system to the latest version 28.2. This update included both the driver package and the Intel® PROSet package, which I ...
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Atom Parker Ridge intel_pstate: CPU model not supported? High power draw
I have a Supermicro A3SPI-8C-LN6PF board which features an embedded Intel Atom C5325 CPU running Proxmox (Debian 11.6, Kernel 6.2.11). dmesg is reporting intel_pstate: CPU model not supported and I'm ...
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LM-Sensors - Intel Arc A750 + Dell R720 + Debian 11 (Kernel 6.2.2)
I have a Dell R720 at home running virtualized services under KVM. I have recently added an Intel ARC A750 which I've passed through a Debian 11 VM (with a Q35 machine model), where I have Jellyfin ...
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Issue with i9-10900TE while activating PAE on linux kernel 5.15.x
I've to compile a linux 32b kernel 5.15.86 RT56 for running on 2 different computers with Intel CPUs : one with an i7-9700TE and 32Gb RAM, and the other one using an i9-10900TE with 64 Gb RAM.
I need ...
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Hp Proliant DL360p gen8, Intel 10G ethernet adapter and no access to Inteligent Provisioning
I have HP Proliant DL360p gen8
and network interfaces:
Intel X520-DA2
Intel I350-T4
and HP 331FLR
There is problem to access Inteligent Provisioning only with Intel X520-DA2 - when this card is ...
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Intel x550 NIC rx_csum_offload_errors and rx_length_errors on Debian 10
I have just changed my Netgear GS108e (8x1Gb) switch with a GM110mx (8x1Gb + 2x10Gb), and noticed that I have now some rx_csum_offload_errors and rx_length_errors errors on my Intel x550T2 NIC stats ...
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I can't turn on sleep on Supermicro X12STH-F board (or find out if it's supported)
I've recently updated to MB Supermicro X12STH-F, Intel Xeon 2388G and I can't make it sleep (OS Windows 10 Pro). It's a server motherboard and cpu, but my previous MB/CPU was also server and sleep was ...
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There is no dir "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/mdev_supported_types" with 5.19.0-23-generic
I've an issue with 5.19.0-23-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP, — there is no /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/mdev_supported_types dir.
uname -a
Linux hp1 5.19.0-23-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC ...
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Memory errors in dmesg, do I need to replace a DIMM?
The following errors show up in dmesg 10-20 times per day:
MCA: Bank 5, Status 0x8c00004000010092
MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000001000c10, Status 0x0000000000000000
MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID ...
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