Re: P4C800E-Dlx: ICH5/S-ATA and Intel Pro onboard network incompatibility ?

From: Greg Stark
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 20:27:55 EST



Erik Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Do check your /proc/interrupts though. With my P4P800 I found
> that when set to Enhanced mode, and when ide-scsi was carefully
> avoided, I was still getting a storm of interrupts that were
> doing rather bad things for system performance. Can you check if
> you are also seeing the same thing? i.e. does the interrupt line
> with your ide controller(s) on it show bazillions of interrupts?

Well I'm not really sure what numbers would be reasonable here, but these
don't seem insane to me.

bash-2.05b$ uptime
21:24:57 up 7 days, 10:41, 10 users, load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.01


CPU0 CPU1
0: 64325490 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 629096 0 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 40215382 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 5479273 0 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
14: 382236 1 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 63 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1
17: 5379508 0 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH5
18: 4574111 2 IO-APIC-level ide3
22: 26963560 0 IO-APIC-level SysKonnect SK-98xx
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 64325091 64325140
ERR: 0
MIS: 2

--
greg

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