On Thursday 15 January 2004 06:14 pm, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 01:32, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Intel 1000 MHz, 1000Mb Ram, 40 + 20GB HD > > > > > > 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. > > Well, my first guess would be that your disk acess is way too slow. > but I see nothing that's obviously wrong... hmm. >
My dma was off I had to change hdparm.conf and it seams to work fine now. > > /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 > > Just for comparison, here's what I get (Athlon 650 and never bothered > about speed): > /dev/hdc: > [...identical...] > geometry = 155061/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 > busstate = 1 (on) > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.90 seconds =142.22 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.54 seconds = 25.20 MB/sec > > Your system might be slower as it could be, but this minimal difference > can't account for your problems. > I agree I don't think the problem is the HD but here is what I get on an Athlon 700. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 596 MB in 2.01 seconds = 296.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 34 MB in 3.11 seconds = 10.93 MB/sec > Looking at your 'top' ouput also tells me little. top itself using 26% > cpu is conspicious, even a 486 should be content at less than 10%. This > should also rule out disk I/O as the drain, as AFAIK there is no disk > I/O with top (at least not in normal usage) and it's still affected. > > Comparing mem usage to mem%, your system knows it has one gig available. > Would have been another guess... > > You're running X as root, which /always/ is a bad thing to do. Yes, this > has nothing to do with the task at hand. Still, you should change this > behaviour. > Well after installing the OS for like 7 times I figured I get it first to run before I make any changes, because if I can't get this going I will have to go back to win2000 on this box, which I don't want to do. > Did you go over the output of dmesg? Perhaps it is something silly, like > the kernel not liking your fpu and using emulation instead? > I compared Floating-Point Unit output to my other AMD box and it seams to be OK. I have added the boot.message at the bottom maybe you can see something else. -- Dennis Kaplan http://vmclinks.com http://guyscope.com Linux version 2.4.21-xfs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 (Debian)) #13 SMP Tue Aug 26 01:46:14 CEST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f7f0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003f7f0000 - 000000003f7f8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003f7f8000 - 000000003f800000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 119MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0002000 On node 0 totalpages: 260080 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages. zone(2): 30704 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303 hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi noapic acpi=off apm=power-off ide_setup: hda=scsi ide_setup: hdb=scsi ide_setup: hdc=scsi ide_setup: hdd=scsi ide_setup: hde=scsi ide_setup: hdf=scsi ide_setup: hdg=scsi ide_setup: hdh=scsi Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1002.278 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1998.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 1019520k/1040320k available (2536k kernel code, 20412k reserved, 698k data, 156k init, 122816k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1000MHz stepping 01 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.04 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1002.2989 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 100.2299 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1002299, slice: 501149 CPU0<T0:1002288,T1:501136,D:3,S:501149,C:1002299> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030619 ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9f8, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded NTFS driver 2.1.4a [Flags: R/W]. udf: registering filesystem SGI XFS snapshot-xfs-2.4.21-2003-07-07_02:01_UTC with ACLs, realtime, no debug enabled SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ipmi: message handler initialized Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:00.1 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS630 ATA 66 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: MAXTOR 6L020J1, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD400AB-00BVA0, ATA DISK drive hdd: Compaq CD-ROM SC-140E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=2498/255/63 hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: host protected area => 1 hdb: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63 ide-cd: passing drive hdd to ide-scsi emulation. hdd: attached ide-scsi driver. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 > Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01-ww1 No raid array found No raid array found No raid array found Guestimating sector 40130479 for superblock Guestimating sector 78163769 for superblock driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: Compaq Model: CD-ROM SC-140E Rev: PA06 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 md: linear personality registered as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 1658.800 MB/sec 32regs : 1006.000 MB/sec pIII_sse : 2365.600 MB/sec pII_mmx : 2220.400 MB/sec p5_mmx : 2315.200 MB/sec raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2365.600 MB/sec) md: multipath personality registered as nr 7 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 4224k freed kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. blk: queue c04a8e40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c04a8f8c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Adding Swap: 1855468k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] EFS: 1.0a - http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/ Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 933M agpgart: Detected SiS 630 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000 cmpci: version $Revision: 5.64 $ time 02:11:11 Aug 26 2003 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xda00 irq 9 cmpci: chip version = 039 cmpci: Enable SPDIF loop sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0f.1 eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xde00, IRQ 11, 00:07:95:b4:09:1b. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.0 usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf8989000, IRQ 10 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.3, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2) usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.0 usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf898b000, IRQ 10 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected hub.c: new USB device 00:01.3-1, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x207) is not claimed by any active driver. hub.c: new USB device 00:01.3-2, assigned address 3 usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x4e6/0x2) is not claimed by any active driver. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,66), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,71), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,72), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! sisfb: Video ROM found and mapped to c00c0000 sisfb: Framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf89d3000, size 8192k sisfb: MMIO at 0xefee0000, mapped to 0xf91d4000, size 128k sisfb: Memory heap starting at 4096K [drm] AGP 0.99 on SiS @ 0xf4000000 64MB [drm] Initialized sis 1.0.0 20010503 on minor 0 eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 32 to 1 Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 64 to 2 Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 96 to 3 Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 128 to 4 Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 160 to 5 Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 192 to 6 Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 224 to 7 ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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