> I've was using .. errrrr .. I think it was "procinfo -dn 1"
OK, I tried this (thanks for the cmd BTW), and I'm getting about 250 on the PCI IDE card, and 500/so on the motherboard card. What that kinda says to mee is the build in ata controller is just hogging the bus for some stupid reason. BTW, I did more testing with the PCI ata card (Siig Ultra ATA 133), and basically the box is useless when showing the on screen guide, but other than that, it doesn't lock up. Not sure why the ivtv requires so much hardware usage to display the overlay OSD, but I assume it has something to do with the way the ivtv driver has to write the framebuffer overlay, and issue it updates or something. In any case, it definitely confirms my hardware issue is the motherboard's built-in HD controller and it's unnecessary hogging of the system. Wouldn't surprise me that the motherboard gives unnecessarily high priority to the build in controller and ignores the PCI bus, similar to what Alan and Joe are talking about. I'm going to buy some new hardware, and as much as I hate "the man", maybe it'll be Intel....(shutter) > Why is it that my disk I was using for backup is using like 250 irq > requests/sec? It is currently unmounted. It isn't degrading > performance but it just seems weird. IDE 0 seems to respond normally. > IDE 1 is acting weird. Of course that's not meaning that ide1 is the > hd. I also installed a dvd burner. But it is unmounted also. hmmm Stupid hardware! It never works like you expect it to... ;) Maybe it's set in the bios for a device, and it's polling to try and wake the device up, even though it's not connected? Maybe it's device(s) doesn't have the master/slave jumper(s) set right. Maybe I just pulled those guesses out of my a$$. -Kenneth ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
