From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262738AbTJJB02 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:26:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262740AbTJJB02 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:26:28 -0400 Received: from dci.doncaster.on.ca ([66.11.168.194]:36282 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262738AbTJJB0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:26:25 -0400 To: andersen@codepoet.org Cc: Greg Stark , Jeff Garzik , Philippe Lochon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: P4C800E-Dlx: ICH5/S-ATA and Intel Pro onboard network incompatibility ? References: <3F7EDCDD.7090500@free.fr> <20031004180338.GA24607@codepoet.org> <20031004192733.GA30371@gtf.org> <20031004195342.GA25328@codepoet.org> <20031005201638.GB4259@codepoet.org> <87r81l9a9u.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> <20031010010629.GA20873@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20031010010629.GA20873@codepoet.org> From: Greg Stark Organization: The Emacs Conspiracy; member since 1992 Date: 09 Oct 2003 21:26:24 -0400 Message-ID: <87fzi19933.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Andersen 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