Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy

[Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com>]

> I presume that if you start your machine and don't start X at all,
> never run Gnome or whatever, that you get similar numbers in your
> console? Possibly the desktop is using a lot of CPU but I doubt it.
> I've never seen that. Every time I've had problems like this it's been
> a newish chipset and the driver for the hard drive interface isn't up
> to snuff yet.
yeah I get similar numbers even in the absence of the desktop manager
, when I tried to copy from  a virtual console.
the stats look something like this :

Linux 2.6.29.1 (satish) 	05/16/2009

08:01:49 AM     CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     %idle
08:01:52 AM     all      3.68      0.00      6.72     41.60      0.00     48.00
08:01:55 AM     all      7.10      0.00     15.00     35.81      0.00     42.10
08:01:58 AM     all     10.45      0.00     22.03     51.29      0.00     16.24
08:02:01 AM     all      5.37      0.00      9.12     72.48      0.00     13.03
08:02:04 AM     all      7.25      0.00     12.40     37.04      0.00     43.32
Average:        all      6.77      0.00     13.06     47.58      0.00     32.59


> So, maybe something now about the actual hardware? lspci, lsmod, uname

uname -a :
Linux satish 2.6.29.1 #1 SMP Tue Apr 21 01:17:09 IST 2009 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML
and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
02:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant
IEEE 1394 Host Controller
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
[Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

(sorry , I did not know what to filter out)


> -a. This is your main drive, correct? The driver is built in and not
> modular, or is it a second drive?
does it make a difference if the driver is built in or a module ??




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