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From: Giacomo Di Ciocco <admin@nectarine.info>
To: joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!"
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:14:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FEB28F1.80305@nectarine.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031225161748.GA31564@tsunami.ccur.com>

Joe Korty wrote:

 > Or maybe IDE DMA is disabled. That would account for lost
 > ticks during period of heavy disk IO.  Giacomo, type
 >
 >   hdparm /dev/hda
 >
 > If it shows 'using DMA' off, try
 >
 >   hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
 >
 > If that fails then the IDE driver you need is not
 > configured in your kernel.
 >
 > Joe

Hi Joe,
enabling the dma mode has resolved the "Losing too many ticks" thing, now the
system seems running fine, the unique strange thing is the "Unknown HZ value!
(92) Assume 100." message, that appears before the output of any program launched.

Thanks everyone for the support.

Regards.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-25 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-25  3:05 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!" Albert Cahalan
2003-12-25 16:02 ` Giacomo Di Ciocco
     [not found] ` <20031225161748.GA31564@tsunami.ccur.com>
2003-12-25 18:14   ` Giacomo Di Ciocco [this message]
2003-12-25 18:05     ` Albert Cahalan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-24 19:12 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks" Giacomo Di Ciocco
2003-12-24 18:49 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!" Giacomo Di Ciocco
2003-12-24 18:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-25  2:33   ` Michael Heyse

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