bert hubert wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:08:06PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
>  
>
>>With the 2.6 kernel I expected that my boxes would be responsive under 
>>heavy loads such as exacted by updatedb. What I'm finding is that when 
>>updatedb and other heavy hitters are running, I'm often unable to switch 
>>desktops or start other tasks. I'm currently using 2.6.7-mm1, but this 
>>    
>>
>
>Can you run vmstat 1 while this happens? Can you make your .config
>available?
>
>Output of dmesg during boot would also be great. Especially check the output
>of hdparm /dev/hda - DMA might be off.
>
>Good luck!
>
>  
>
I've been wondering why this is, I can't remember what the BIOS says 
about the hard drives, from memory it looked OK, I think it was set to 
AUTO, haven't tried LBA.
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  1 (on)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 65535/16/63, sectors = 240121728, start = 0

/dev/hdc:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  1 (on)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 19929/255/63, sectors = 320173056, start = 0

ide0 / hda      Maxtor          6Y120L0                 disk  #### boot 
drive
ide0 / hdb      ATAPI           COMBO48XMAX             cdrom
ide1 / hdc      Maxtor          6Y160P0                 disk

  BUS             TYPE             DESCRIPTION
-------         ---------        ---------------
  PCI           RAM              nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory 
Controller 1 (rev c1)
  PCI           RAM              nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory 
Controller 4 (rev c1)
  PCI           RAM              nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory 
Controller 3 (rev c1)
  PCI           RAM              nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory 
Controller 2 (rev c1)
  PCI           RAM              nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory 
Controller 5 (rev c1)
  PCI           USB              nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB 
Controller (rev a4)
  PCI           USB              nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB 
Controller (rev a4)
  PCI           Ethernet         nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet 
Controller (rev a1)
  PCI           Multimedia       nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia 
audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
  PCI           Multimedia       nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio 
Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
  PCI           IDE              nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
  PCI           FireWire         nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire 
(IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
  PCI           Ethernet         Galileo Technology Ltd.
  AGP           VGA              nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] (rev a1)

Regards
Sid.

-- 
Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
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