On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:03 am, Lou Losee wrote:
> * Dennis Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 12:48]:
>
> --snip--
>
> > The problem is the CPU load when idle it runs between 5-30 %
> > As soon as I start an application it goes up to 100% and stays there till
> > the application is done loading. Loading an application like Kmail takes
> > about 2 to 3 minutes.
>
> What is using the cpu? top should tell you.
>
> What is the output of hdparm -Ttv /dev/your-drive ?
>
> Run it against both drives on the slow system. Just for grins you might
> also run it on the system that seems ok to compare the two. Perhaps you
> are running without dma?
>
> Lou
Sure thing dma was off, I turned it on on both drives. The output is below.
It is still slow, don't really see any change in speed. Below is also the
output of "top".
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/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2498/255/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
Timing buffer-cache reads: 172 MB in 2.00 seconds = 86.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.05 seconds = 23.61 MB/sec
bash-2.05b# hdparm -Ttv /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0
Timing buffer-cache reads: 100 MB in 2.06 seconds = 48.54 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 88 MB in 3.02 seconds = 29.14 MB/sec
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
704 root 18 0 1020 1020 820 R 26.2 0.1 0:09.94 top
503 root 9 0 15468 15m 13m S 3.8 1.5 2:23.76 kdeinit
566 root 9 0 14360 14m 12m S 3.1 1.4 0:35.08 kdeinit
507 root 10 0 11804 11m 10m S 2.9 1.2 0:37.31 kdeinit
355 root 5 -10 19948 11m 1788 S 2.7 1.1 2:30.65 XFree86
661 root 9 0 18872 18m 15m S 1.1 1.8 0:22.56 kmail
475 root 9 0 6176 6172 4720 S 0.7 0.6 0:24.50 artsd
1 root 9 0 492 492 440 S 0.2 0.0 0:05.36 init
117 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.2 0.0 0:01.35 kjournald
251 root 9 0 608 608 516 S 0.2 0.1 0:00.60 syslogd
462 root 9 0 11184 10m 10m S 0.2 1.1 0:08.46 kdeinit
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11
ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.91 kupdated
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 pagebufd
8 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xfslogd/0
9 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xfsdatad/0
10 root -1 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
mdrecoveryd
11 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.10 kjournald
79 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
86 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.27 kapmd
115 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald
116 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.21 kjournald
182 daemon 9 0 600 600 508 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 portmap
254 root 9 0 552 552 468 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.93 klogd
272 root 9 0 1488 1488 1148 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.78 cupsd
301 mail 8 0 1328 1324 1116 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 exim3
306 root 9 0 1704 1704 1120 S 0.0 0.2 0:05.13 famd
311 root 9 0 520 520 464 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 inetd
317 root 9 0 1092 1092 952 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.31 lisa
336 root 9 0 2144 2144 1356 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.67 nmbd
338 root 9 0 2508 2508 1632 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.04 smbd
344 root 9 0 1428 1428 1200 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 sshd
348 root 9 0 712 712 600 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.27 cron
353 root 9 0 696 696 624 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 kdm
356 root 8 0 1468 1468 1092 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.21 kdm
376 root 8 0 1960 1960 1168 S 0.0 0.2 0:37.03 bash
377 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 getty
378 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 getty
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