pkg_add is driving me NUTS!

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:22, Björn König wrote:
> Remington L schrieb:
> > I have two servers, exact same hardware, exact same version of FreeBSD,
> > in this case 4.10. When I run pkg_add blah.tbz on one machine, it takes
> > between
> > 2-8 hours, on the other 8-10 minutes. These machines are quad-Intel
> > 2.8Xeons, with 4GB of memory.
> >
> > Ive done everything from running make world, to md5ing pkg_add, bzip2,
> > and tar, there identical.
> >
> > I noticed on the one thing, on the machine that takes forever, bzip2 is
> > only
> > using 1-3% load, while the other, which does work, takes 100%. I have SMP
> > compiled into the kernel, well actually, there both using the exact same
> > kernconf.
> >
> > Anyone have ideas??
>
> I would try to encircle the problem. Try to compress and decompress
> idendical random data with bzip2 on both machines. Try also the GENERIC
> kernel without SMP. At a glance I would assume that there is a hardware
> fault.

Yes that, or perhaps medium problems? anything interesting from dmesg(8)?