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SubjectRe: Poor SMP performance with 2.3.18ac8
I'd suggest killing off/never starting the enlighenment sound daemon..
(Not sure if there's a way you can tell it not to start, but renaming it
would certainly work)... at least as a temporary workaround..

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Mike Frisch wrote:

> I am running 2.3.18ac8 on an ABit BP6 with dual Celeron 300s and 128MB
> RAM. When running a uniprocessor kernel, the system performance is as
> expected, but when running an SMP kernel, the system is generally slow and
> clunky. My RC5 keyrates are half (or less) than they are when the
> uniprocessor kernel is running. A quick look at the procinfo output
> reveals the following:
>
> irq 0: 6507260 timer irq 6: 3
> irq 1: 25880 keyboard irq 10: 277422 NE2000
> irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 13: 1 fpu
> irq 4: 128804 serial irq 14: 229244 ide0
> irq 5: 44716209 soundblaster irq 15: 3 ide1
>
> Doesn't the interrupt count for IRQ5 look a little high in comparison with
> the timer count? Could this be an indication as to what's causing the poor
> performance?
>
> When the system is sitting idle in GNOME/Enlightenment with a couple of
> xterms running, the load is in the 3-5 range which seems abnormal as well.
>
> Any assistance is appreciated. I can provide any more additional
> information as necessary.
>
> Mike.
>
> ======================================================================
> Mike Frisch Email: mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org
> Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
> Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
> ======================================================================


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