On 11/27/06, Snafoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

my system running snv_50 is often very slow, the mouse cursor is 'jumping' on 
the screen as if the system is very busy and by switching workspaces the 
desktop needs several seconds to be redrawn. The problems seems to be the huge 
amount of interrupts.

intrstat:

      device |      cpu0 %tim
-------------+---------------
       ata#0 |         2  0.1
  audio810#0 |     52857  3.0
      ehci#0 |         0  0.0
       nfo#0 |     52857  3.3
   pci-ide#1 |         0  0.0
   pci-ide#2 |    105715  3.8

nfo#0 is the on-board network interface. I've read something about false "interrupt 
polarity" in the DSDT ACPI table but I don't know which changes I have to make to 
the table.

The system specs are

MSI K8N Neo Platinum Motherboard
Nvidia nForce 3 2050Gb Chipset (Audio & NIC on-board)
MSI RX9250 ATI Radeon Graphics Card
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
AWARD Bios V2.1 (The latest I could find at MSI's webpage)
3xSATA HD's (1 UFS, 2 ZFS)

I'd appreciate any help or suggestion.


I'm pretty sure this is the issue that Seth putback a fix
for last week:

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/on-changelog-20061120.html
(scroll down a bit)

Issues Resolved:
BUG/RFE:5092743pcplusmp: IOAPIC cannot deliver interrupt to cpu when
RDT entry is masked
BUG/RFE:6335195psm modules should workaround incorrect interrupt
polarity information from ACPI
BUG/RFE:6437077pcplusmp: Fix for 6425990 still allows some deadlocks
BUG/RFE:6483272apic_check_stuck_interrupt must not call functions that
may lead to preemption; induces hang
BUG/RFE:6490462pcplusmp still assumes CPU 0 is always available
Files Changed:
update:usr/src/uts/i86pc/io/pcplusmp/apic.c
update:usr/src/uts/i86pc/io/pcplusmp/apic.h
update:usr/src/uts/i86pc/io/pcplusmp/apic_introp.c


So unless you want to wait for snv_54 (current build) to be
released as SX, then you should grab the current weekly
build instead.


cheers,
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
             http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
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