From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261500AbTKEFHm (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:07:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261861AbTKEFHm (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:07:42 -0500 Received: from brains.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.161.140]:47035 "EHLO brains.student.utwente.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261500AbTKEFHl (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:07:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA885C0.8030906@brains.student.utwente.nl> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:08:16 +0100 From: Justin Ossevoort User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nforce2 stability on 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I've got an A7N8X mobo, and the same problems. 'noapic' makes the system run much better. You also have a big interrupt count on int21. Mine is going beserk. Top shows that almost 30% of my cpu is being used up on hi (Hardware Interrupts I guess). Watching /proc/interrupts reveals I get tens of thousands of interrupts on 21 every second, disabling usb or the soundcard doesn't help, disabling both does help. Is interrupt 21 doing something funny? Regards, justin.... ross.alexander@uk.neceur.com wrote in message news:... > **** /proc/interrupts **** > > CPU0 > 0: 77764351 XT-PIC timer > 1: 35127 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc > 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi > 12: 146812 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 14: 105553 IO-APIC-edge ide0 > 15: 1371 IO-APIC-edge ide1 > 19: 5329271 IO-APIC-level nvidia > 21: 12326898 IO-APIC-level NVidia nForce2, eth0 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 77761842 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 4