From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261926AbVGZQ1E (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:27:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261946AbVGZQMT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:12:19 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:60896 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261926AbVGZQLR (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:11:17 -0400 X-Authenticated: #28678167 Message-ID: <42E66124.7020709@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:13:24 +0200 From: Andreas Baer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050725) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood- References: <42E4373D.1070607@gmx.net> <20050725051236.GS8907@alpha.home.local> <42E4E4B0.6050904@gmx.net> <20050725152425.GA24568@alpha.home.local> <42E542D5.3080905@gmx.net> <42E55012.5040307@tmr.com> <42E55ECB.2070703@gmx.net> <42E64B11.6030908@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <42E64B11.6030908@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andreas Baer wrote: > >> >> >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >>> >>> One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have >>> over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... >>> >>> Andreas Baer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Willy Tarreau wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>>> There clearly is a problem on the system installed on this machine. >>>>> You should >>>>> use strace to see what this machine does all the time, it is >>>>> absolutely not >>>>> expected that the user/system ratios change so much between two nearly >>>>> identical systems. So there are system calls which eat all CPU. You >>>>> may want >>>>> to try strace -Tttt on the running process during a few tens of >>>>> seconds. I >>>>> guess you'll immediately find the culprit amongst the syscalls, and >>>>> it might >>>>> give you a clue. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I hope you are talking about a hardware/kernel problem and not a >>>> software >>>> problem, because I tried it also with LiveCD's and they showed the >>>> same results >>>> on this machine. >>>> I'm not a linux expert, that means I've never done anything like >>>> that before, >>>> so it would be nice if you give me a hint what you see in this >>>> results. :) >>>> >>> >>> Am I misreading this, or is your program doing a bunch of seeks not >>> followed by an i/o operation? I would doubt that's important, but >>> your vmstat showed a lot of system time, and I just wonder if >>> llseek() is more expensive in Linux than Windows. Or if your code is >>> such that these calls are not optimized away by gcc. >> >> >> >> I don't know what exactly produces this _llseek calls, but I ran the >> compiled binaries on both machines (desktop + notebook) without any >> recompilation and so I think they should do the same (even if this is >> bad or not optimized), but I see a time difference of more than 2:30 >> :) This _llseek calls also don't seem to be faster or slower if you >> compare the times on the notebook and the desktop. > > > > If the program and test data is not proprietary, would it help to have > me run the test on my P4P800, P4-2.8, HT on, and see if that's an issue > with your particular board or BIOS? I have the 1086 BIOS from my notes > on that machine, I think you were running a later BIOS? 1091 or so, from > memory? > > Anyway, I would run a test that takes 3 minutes if it helps as a data > point. Properly a good idea, but you have a completely different chipset related to the Asus Website. I think it's a i865 and I have i875. I'm also running BIOS 1019(!). That's the driver page for my Board: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?Type=All&model=P4C800%20Deluxe It would be better if someone has at least the same board. Does anyone have a Asus P4C800-Deluxe with a P4 around 2.4 GHz running on this mailing list and would sacrifice himself/herself to run a little test with my software for a maximum of 4 minutes? Would be approx. 10 MB for data transmission.