Itanium rx4640 issue

[Nyck_1]

I have just finished an install of 11i V2 on one of my rx4640's and from within sam it thinks that the clock speed of the cpu's is 399MHz, how can this be?

Also when I run a strings on /etc/lvmtab I'm getting the below output:-

strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
sCkG
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2

What on earth is sCkG?

[Oviwan · Accepted solution]

what says "machinfo" about the clock speed?

[Nyck_1]

machinfo
CPU info:
Number of CPUs = 8
Clock speed = 1600 MHz
Bus speed = 400 MT/s
CPUID registers
vendor information = "GenuineIntel"
processor serial number = 0x0000000000000000
processor version info = 0x0000000020000704
architecture revision: 0
processor family: 32 Intel(R) Itanium 2 9000 series
processor model: 0 Intel(R) Itanium 2 9000 series
processor revision: 7 Stepping C2
largest CPUID reg: 4
processor capabilities = 0x0000000000000005
implements long branch: 1
implements 16-byte atomic operations: 1
Bus features
implemented = 0xbdf0000020000000
selected = 0x0000000000000000

Cache info (per core):
L1 Instruction: size = 16 KB, associativity = 4
L1 Data: size = 16 KB, associativity = 4
L2 Instruction: size = 1024 KB, associativity = 8
L2 Data: size = 256 KB, associativity = 8
L3 Unified: size = 9216 KB, associativity = 9

Memory = 32738 MB (31.970703 GB)

Firmware info:
Firmware revision = 04.28
FP SWA driver revision: 1.18
IPMI is supported on this system.
BMC version: 4.6

Platform info:
model string = "ia64 hp server rx4640"
machine id number = db73436b-dd2d-11dc-8186-784358890207
machine serial number = DEH4802LFW

OS info:
sysname = HP-UX
nodename = lonita5
release = B.11.23
version = U (unlimited-user license)
machine = ia64
idnumber = 3681764203
vmunix _release_version:
@(#) $Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Aug 29 22:35:38 PDT 2003 $

So it looks like sam is telling me porky pies!!!

Have you ever come across this before?

I have just checked all my other Itanium Servers and sam is giving me the correct clock speeds!

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

sCkG is random binary combinations that happen to be characters. It is not anything.

sam is broken. See itrc.hp.com patch database for sam patches.

It would be interesting to know which Core OS DVD you installed off of. If its old, get the latest bi-annual update (QPK) and install it.

SEP

[Nyck_1]

I have used the June 2007 media kit for this OS install. The strange thing is that I have used the same media kit for four other Itanium OS installs and they are all working fine with sam, i.e they display the correct clock speed for the cpu's.

Oh well at least my install is not corrupt!

[Torsten.]

I guess there was a patch for this, but I cannot remember exactly.

Don't worry about the strings output.

You are showing some parts of a *binary* file on the screen (do man strings) - sometimes it is showing some data that "looks like" characters.

[Torsten.]

See this patch description and search for "cpu clock":

http://www12.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHCO_36563&sel={hpux:11.23,}&BC=main|search|

This is the current "s700_800 11.23 cumulative SAM patch"

[Nyck_1]

I have just installed this patch along with its many dependancies and the issue is now resolved!

cheers for all the replys