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From: Jeff <jmg_071769@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:11:44
Message-Id: 43F492F9.7030803@comcast.net
1 Hey all.
2
3 Gentoo Linux AMD64 - running pretty sweet - except, I've noticed that
4 even under minimal loads, my system seems to have mini-lockups
5 frequently. For instance, when downloading a mere 10 emails, my system
6 seems to choke - to the point where I can't even move my mouse for a
7 good 10 seconds or so. Opening a gnome-terminal is painful - sometimes,
8 apps make the desktop freeze for a good 20-30 seconds. I did a large
9 emerge last night using the gnome-terminal, and it rendered my Gnome
10 desktop almost completely frozen.
11
12 Any idea what might be causing this, and what steps I should take to
13 troubleshoot this? The best I can tell, the problem seems to be hard
14 drive related, as it does a lot of chewing before the app finally let's
15 rip. The hard drive is an IDE, not SATA as you might expect from the
16 info below. Other than these strange mini-lockups, my system is buzzing
17 right along at a good clip!
18
19 Thanks!
20
21 System specs:
22
23 uname -a
24 Linux jmg 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Thu Feb 16 05:56:55 EST 2006 x86_64
25 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
26
27 cat /proc/cpuinfo
28 processor : 0
29 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
30 cpu family : 15
31 model : 47
32 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
33 stepping : 2
34 cpu MHz : 2188.889
35 cache size : 512 KB
36 fpu : yes
37 fpu_exception : yes
38 cpuid level : 1
39 wp : yes
40 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
41 mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
42 lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm
43 bogomips : 4386.19
44 TLB size : 1024 4K pages
45 clflush size : 64
46 cache_alignment : 64
47 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
48 power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
49
50 free -m
51 total used free shared buffers cached
52 Mem: 1505 1475 30 0 201 417
53 -/+ buffers/cache: 856 649
54 Swap: 487 0 487
55
56 lspci
57 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
58 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port
59 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller
60 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
61 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
62 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
63 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
64 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI
65 IDE Controller ATI
66 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
67 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
68 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
69 HyperTransport Technology Configuration
70 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
71 Address Map
72 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
73 DRAM Controller
74 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
75 Miscellaneous Control
76 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41.0 (rev a2)
77 02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
78 Controller (rev 80)
79 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
80 (rev 78)
81 02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
82
83 hdparm -tT /dev/hda
84
85 /dev/hda:
86 Timing cached reads: 2992 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1495.91 MB/sec
87 Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.69 seconds = 1.08 MB/sec
88
89 emerge info
90 Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
91 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
92 =================================================================
93 System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
94 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
95 ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
96 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
97 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12
98 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
99 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
100 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1
101 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
102 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
103 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
104 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
105 CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
106 CFLAGS="-fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
107 CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
108 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
109 /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
110 /var/qmail/control"
111 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
112 CXXFLAGS="-fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
113 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
114 FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
115 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
116 ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
117 ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/
118 http://gentoo.netnitco.net"
119 MAKEOPTS="-j2"
120 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
121 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
122 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
123 SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
124 USE="amd64 X aac aim alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb
125 bitmap-fonts bmp browserplugin bzip2 calendar cdr crypt cups curl dbus
126 directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat
127 fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gnome gnutls gpm
128 gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6
129 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff
130 mad mhash mikmod mime mng mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mtrr mysql ncurses nls
131 nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam
132 pdflib perl php png python quicktime readline ruby samba sasl scanner
133 sdl snmp sockets sox spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
134 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd vorbis xine xml2 xmms
135 xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
136 Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
137 --
138 gentoo-security@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... Christophe Garault <christophe@×××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... Robert Larson <robert@×××××××××.com>