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Ok, so with some quick tips from the nice peoples here in the list, I |
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was almost instantly able to track down the culprit to my hard draive |
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whackiness. It's my ATI IDE controller: |
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00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI |
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IDE Controller ATI |
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In the kernel, I found: |
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Device Drivers ---> |
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ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> |
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<*> ATI IXP chipset IDE support |
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I built this into my kernel, and now I get: |
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hdparm -tT /dev/hda |
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/dev/hda: |
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Timing cached reads: 2860 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1429.91 MB/sec |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.02 seconds = 57.54 MB/sec |
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That looks a HECK of a lot better! |
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I tried turning on DMA, but that didn't seem to make a difference. |
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Thanks to all for your help! |
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Igor V. Rafienko wrote: |
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> on Feb 16, 2006, 09:58, Jeff wrote: |
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>> Gentoo Linux AMD64 - running pretty sweet - except, I've noticed that |
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>> even under minimal loads, my system seems to have mini-lockups |
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>> frequently. |
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> That has *never* happened to me. Last lockup was due to running tvtime |
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> and bzflag at the same time (some xorg driver crap). |
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>> I did a large emerge last night using the gnome-terminal, and it |
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>> rendered my Gnome desktop almost completely frozen. |
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> That vaguely suggests DMA issues. |
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>> hdparm -tT /dev/hda |
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>> /dev/hda: |
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>> Timing cached reads: 2992 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1495.91 MB/sec |
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>> Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.69 seconds = 1.08 MB/sec |
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> This is unacceptably low. A relatively recent hdd should perform at |
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> least in the 30-40MBps range. Did you turn DMA on? (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) |
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> ivr |
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-- |
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Han Solo: |
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Well Princess, it looks like you managed to keep me |
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here a while longer. |
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Princess Leia: |
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I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks |
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it's dangerous for anyone to leave the system until |
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they've activated the energy shield. |
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Han Solo: |
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That's a good story. I think you just can't bear to |
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let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight. |
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Princess Leia: |
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I don't know where you get you delusions, laser brain! |
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Chewbacca laughs |
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Han Solo: |
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Laugh it up, fuzzball! |
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