From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756764AbZEPCiR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 22:38:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754669AbZEPCiA (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 22:38:00 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f123.google.com ([209.85.216.123]:49857 "EHLO mail-px0-f123.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754238AbZEPCh7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 22:37:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ULJAFziz+tps5vsjQ6mizwSrsRl7lLu65cPZ6gjj1+LIq0ml7VuWYCG3CDRfgsjJ5Y r61UWeT0hoaDatE0llFBmyWacMlpsGnHj3WHUqV8WjAqZw0ULAwdJjlkU7wqlJOpJ3Yi OzJSCzx8QlRrw3Rxdtvt3mOqGKrOKFwfmtlyI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0905151120p5aa58318t1765544fbbb695b2@mail.gmail.com> References: <93655eb70905151007v5f9bb34aj34be4b65ffeb02a4@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0905151012x51c19b5cv639cadab1cee3849@mail.gmail.com> <93655eb70905151024o634f8432j6c3db85df1f6ddfc@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0905151120p5aa58318t1765544fbbb695b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 08:08:00 +0530 Message-ID: <93655eb70905151938y558bf86flcfb7c6b6b2c171c6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy From: Satish Eerpini To: Mark Knecht Cc: Rik van Riel , Ray Lee , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 ?? Satish -- http://satish.playdrupal.com