From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261196AbVARIwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:52:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261189AbVARIwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:52:24 -0500 Received: from penta.pentaserver.com ([216.74.97.66]:9954 "EHLO penta.pentaserver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261196AbVARIv4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:51:56 -0500 Message-ID: <41ECCE0F.3040908@kromtek.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:51:27 +0400 From: Manu Abraham User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: omes@omes.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP References: <200501172209.00325.kernel@omes.org> <41EC2F7E.8030806@kromtek.com> <200501180005.59716.omes@omes.org> In-Reply-To: <200501180005.59716.omes@omes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - penta.pentaserver.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kromtek.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org omes wrote: > I suddenly couldn't send to the mailinglist any longer.. I'm going back to > 2.4.28 for now. My 4GB of RAM support was already turned off.. Good luck > further. Here is my mail: > > On Monday 17 January 2005 22:34, you wrote: > >>omes wrote: >> >>>I have the same problem as you. At least our problems are much alike. I >>>got two Western digital hard disks. One 120GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache IDE, and >>>one 80GB 7200 2MB Cache IDE. I get high loads when reading large files >>>for some time, as well as when copying from one partition to another. All >>>my partitions are in ext3, and i'm running 2.6.10. >> >>I have a similar problem. I am running 2.6.9 on FC3 not the stock >>kernel, but a vanilla kernel. >>I have 3 NFS shares mounted on this 2.6.9 machine (ASUS P4C800 ICH5 >>motherboard with 1024 MB RAM and sk98lin gigabit LOM (non-functional >>since thesk98lin driver broke apart) so i use an additional 3Com 3C59x >>100 Mbps adapter, with a nvidia VGA adapter, but no nvidia modules but >>only VESAFB at 1024x768. > > This is the same series as i got P4C800/P4P800.. > > Gabriel worte this in an earlier post: > "The performance issues (below) where due to a strange bug in the kernel > VM triggered by the motherboard BIOS. This affects Asus P4P800 > motherboards(-MX and -VM tested) with more that 1 GB RAM. The built-in I have exactly 1GB. > VGA can use 1-32 MB RAM for display but configured with less than 16 MB > of video RAM the board will behave EXTREMELY poor in linux (2.6.9 also > tested to behave like this). > I don't have 4GB support, nor do i have shared VGA. I have a nvidia(64M onboard, not shared) card using vesafb. No X either. > There are several ways around this problem, I've just configured the > board with 16 MB of video RAM. Disabling support for 4 GB of RAM works > too but more memory is lost this way. Running FreeBSD is also an option > but we don't like that, don't we ? Memtest86 (1.11) doesn't seems > affected either - but it detects the memory as "single channel" while > memory is installed in dual channel configuration (also confirmed by BIOS). > > If anybody knows what's going on please let me know. Loosing 15 MB of > RAM is not a big deal but I like linux bug-free, fast and stable. > > I'm available to give more details or run some tests if anyone cares. > > Regards, > > Gabriel" (adapted) > > As for the LOM, use this driver comes with the kernel: Device Drivers -> > Networking support -> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) -> Marvell Yukon Chipset / > SysKonnect SK-98xx Support > It was broken when i tried it out on 2.6.7 i think, and i stumbled upon the a post stating about incorrect VPD entries.. So i thought i would wait for things to cool down a bit. Manu