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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kworker use >80% of CPU
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:31:54
Message-Id: 532C1510.5060702@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kworker use >80% of CPU by Tom Wijsman
1 Am 20.03.2014 11:24, schrieb Tom Wijsman:
2 > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:39:58 +0400
3 > Gleb Klochkov <glebiuskv@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Tom, thank you for your answer.
6 >>
7 >> $ dmesg >> http://bpaste.net/show/187533/
8 > There this can be seen:
9 >
10 > [ 18.074574] [drm] Wrong MCH_SSKPD value: 0x16040307
11 > [ 18.074575] [drm] This can cause pipe underruns and display
12 > issues.
13 > [ 18.074575] [drm] Please upgrade your BIOS to fix this.
14 > [ 18.148162] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus vga] timed out, falling back
15 > to bit banging on pin 2
16 >
17 > Above your messages seem interesting; some expected value is wrong, it
18 > also times out on a bus and then goes to use a pin instead. Not sure
19 > how much of this is intended, but try to upgrade your BIOS as suggested.
20 >
21 >> $ cat /proc/interrupts >> http://bpaste.net/show/187537/
22 > So, that would be this:
23 >
24 > 8: 63 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
25 >
26 > Hmm, nothing about it in the dmesg; also, 63 seems low (on my system,
27 > however, it's only 1 as I think my system uses something different).
28 >
29 > You can try a different timer using this kernel parameter:
30 >
31 > clocksource=hpet
32 >
33 > Another note-worthy thing:
34 >
35 > 9: 699799454 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
36 >
37 > That there are ~700 million ACPI interrupts seems abnormally high;
38 > maybe the count is off by one, and 8 refers to 9? On my system, that's
39 > been running for a while by now, it's only at ~6000 (six thousand).
40
41 uptime
42 11:29:37 up 49 days, 15:48, 16 users, load average: 0,38, 0,31, 0,39
43
44 8: 0 0 0 48 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
45 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
46
47
48 >
49 > Changing the ACPI related kernel parameters to try to get it supported
50 > differently might be one thing to do here; other than that, it might be
51 > something going on with the hardware (try disconnecting things?) so the
52 > BIOS upgrade is certainly of interest.
53 >
54 > Try the BIOS upgrade first, then play around with the parameters; if
55 > things don't work out, I suggest you look for support on one of the
56 > Linux kernel mailing lists (perhaps acpi-devel*). Good luck.
57 >
58 > * https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel
59 >
60 imho he should first use a recent VANILLA kernel. 2.12 or 2.13.
61
62 And build a config without all that unneeded garbage. Also increase the
63 dmesg buffer. Most interesting stuff is missing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kworker use >80% of CPU Gleb Klochkov <glebiuskv@×××××.com>