Martins Steinbergs schreef: > On Monday 31 October 2005 18:24, Holly Bostick wrote: >> >>Basically, my system is running "fine" (no overt problems), but about >>every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait >>for 5-10 seconds while it does it before I can go further. Or the >>display pauses, and I have to wait for the redraw , I can't tell which. <snip> > >>Memory and CPU use are not bizarre, I have a lot of processes going, but >>nothing weird or unexpected seems to be running if I can trust top and >>gnome-system-monitor. Since all the problems seem to be related to the X >>server, maybe it's an X problem; I'm currently using the VESA driver, as >>I wanted to get a clean install of the new ATI drivers when I compile >>the next kernel (2.13-r5, I'm using 2.13-r4 atm). I'm not using >>anything but 2D applications atm, though (of course, since I have no >>3D-capable drivers available). But maybe it's a kernel scheduling >>problem. Or maybe gamin sucks, halting the whole system while it updates >>the file tree. >> > > sounds like no DMA enabled > > mar bin # hdparm /dev/hdb > > /dev/hdb: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > -->>>>using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > geometry = 19929/255/63, sectors = 320173056, start = 0 > >
Would that it was so simple: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 80060424192, start = 0 hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 82348277760, start = 0 hdparm /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument hdparm /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 40027029504, start = 0 But thanks; I wouldn't have thought to check/confirm that DMA was (still) on. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
