On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:04:20PM +0000, Roger Hayter wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Hayter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> I should be most grateful for advice on how to investigate this problem >> further. I have installed opensuse 10.3 on a P5A-B motherboard (Aladdin >> V chipset) with 512MB of SDRAM, Cyrix MII-300 processor. This runs >> slowly, with somewhat garbled graphics (ATI Radeon 7000) if I use X >> windows. Without X windows, in run level 3, the load average after >> booting (and after it has done various database things and settled) is >> about 0.50. Even if I start it with so-called safe mode and remove all >> loadable modules apart from those needed to drive the IDE interface the >> load average never falls below about 0.20. In the first case the CPU >> usage is about 60% idle and about 30% "si" (is this context switching?). >> In the second, CPU is about 95% idle, but the load average varies from >> 0.16 to 0.22. >> >> >> I assume some driver or high priority kernel process too >> fundamental to show up by "ps" is in a loop occupying processor time. >> Certainly the machine is even more sluggish than the hardware should >> warrant (and I am using older hardware in a router running SuSE 10.1 >> with load averages about .01 to .02). >> >> This is clearly too vague for a bug report, can anyone suggest >> how I can pin this down more, for instance find out where the CPU is >> spending most of its time? >> > > Can anyone advise me where to look in order to trace this problem further?
The load idle seems a bit high for just sitting there and doing nothing. Can you run 'powertop' while in text mode (no X running) and see what is showing up as being the thing that is waking the processor up the most? Hopefully that tool will work, but I don't know, as that is a very old processor. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
