PROBLEM: slow system with Kernel > 2.2.5, SMP & EISA
DESC: awful slow system with all kernel versions > 2.2.5
(incl 2.3.x) and the Mozart sound driver. System worked
perfectly until kernel 2.2.5.
KEYWORDS: SMP, EISA, PCI, PentiumI
KVERSION: Linux version 2.2.14 (root@raven) (gcc version pgcc-2.95.2
19991024 (release)) #3 SMP Wed Mar 1 22:43:32 CET 2000
ENVIRONMENT: Dual Pentium 133 MHz,
112 MB RAM,
Neptune-Board (EISA+PCI),
NCR 53c810 SCSI-II,
Matrox Millenium I
Mozart Sound Card
Hi!
I hope, you could help me.
I have a Dual Pentium 133 MHz, 112 MB RAM, Neptune-Board (EISA+PCI),
NCR 53c810 SCSI-II, Matrox Millenium I
After upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.[6, ... 14] / 2.3.[16, ..., 47]
my system is running awfully slow. I have a high system load
(about 25% - 46% for each procesor). Mainly the complete X11-system has
a unusual high load (X: 45% CPU, enlightenment: 14%, netscape: 20%,
gkrellm: 20%) and these values are grabbed while I'm writing this message!
It takes 5 minutes to see the Gnome Software map! And I have a ISDN line!
Also, my Mozart based sound card hangs up the system when I try to load
the modules: soundcore, sound, ad1848, uart401, opl3, mpu401, v_midi and
adlib_card are ok, but when I try to load:
'mad16 io=0x530 irq=11 dma=3 dma16=0 mpu_io=0x220 mpu_irq=5' the system
goes into the great Nirwana!
Unfortunately the documentation for the Mozart sound drivers are old.
And I'm in doubt if the Readme-file is up-to-date.
Another crash occurs when I lock out of the X11 system.
Courious: [v 2.2.14]: I can log out and in (xdm) without problems, but
after activating the ISDN line, the system crashes when I try to log out.
Maybe this could help you:
I've compiled a 2.2.13 kernel without SMP support. I'd no lock-out error,
and the system seemed to run faster. I hadn't tried the sound support.
Also, I've seen that the ISA/EISA code in 'i386/kernel/io_apic.c' has
changed, maybe that's the problem???
I hope, you could help me,
Oliver.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Borowiak Kalandstr. 12 Phone: +49 531 895 984 D-38118 Braunschweig mailto:oliver@raven.escape.de
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 132.000701 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic bogomips : 52.63
processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 132.000701 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic bogomips : 52.63
dss1_divert 8796 0 (unused) hisax 150464 3 isdn 113708 5 [hisax dss1_divert] lp 5276 0 (unused) sg 12364 0 (unused) isofs 17848 0 (unused) sr_mod 18140 0 (unused) cdrom 13720 0 [sr_mod] vfat 9148 0 (unused) msdos 5372 0 (unused) fat 29728 0 [vfat msdos] autofs 9444 0 (unused) slhc 4268 1 [isdn] sunrpc 54436 0 nvram 3500 0 (unused) parport_probe 3076 0 parport_pc 7284 2 parport 7656 2 [lp parport_probe parport_pc]
PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 16). Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Non-VGA device: Intel 82375EB (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 5, function 0: Network controller: AVM A1 (Fritz) (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7ef000 [0xfb7ef000]. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. Bus 0, device 6, function 0: Non-VGA device: NCR 53c810 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7ee000 [0xfb7ee000]. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7e8000 [0xfb7e8000]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb800000 [0xfb800008].
Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1060S 1.05GB Rev: 203C Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34520N Rev: 1206 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DPES-31080 Rev: S31Q Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: PIONEER Model: CD-ROM DR-U10X Rev: 1.07 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SCANNER Model: Rev: 2.02 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions) Linux raven 2.2.14 #4 SMP Wed Mar 1 00:51:24 CET 2000 i586 unknown Kernel modules 2.1.121 Gnu C pgcc-2.95.2 Binutils 2.9.1.0.23 Linux C Library 2.1.2 Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.2 Linux C++ Library 2.8.1 Procps 1.2.9 Mount 2.9i Net-tools 1.53 Kbd file Sh-utils 1.16 Modules Loaded dss1_divert hisax isdn lp sg isofs sr_mod cdrom vfat msdos fat autofs slhc sunrpc nvram parport_probe parport_pc parport
CPU0 CPU1 0: 3252073 3258192 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2880 2545 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 9910 9984 IO-APIC-edge serial 8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 41603 41717 IO-APIC-level ncr53c8xx 12: 1312233166 1312290169 IO-APIC-level HiSax 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu NMI: 0 ERR: 0
0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0278-027a : parport1 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0378-037a : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f8-03ff : serial(set) e400-e47f : ncr53c8xx e800-e81f : avm PCI
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