Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:18:04 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: big IRQ latencies, was: <no subject> |
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:38:59PM +0200, joerg.beyer@email.de wrote: > Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> schrieb am 25.08.02 14:10:12: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 joerg.beyer@email.de wrote: > ... > > That should fix your slowdown during untarring/disk access, as for your > > NIC problem looks like you might be having a receive FIFO overflow, so > > perhaps the card stops processing incoming packets? I have no clue, > > maybe this helps: outgoing transfer (from the laptop to some > other machine) is reasonable fast: I could copy gig's of data > away, but not to the machine. I asume sending away makes not > so heavy use of IRQ's, right?
A laptop, you say ? And network reception is jamming while there is high disk-write activity ?
/sbin/hdparam -v /dev/hda
/dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) <----- ?? unmaskirq = 1 (on) <----- ?? using_dma = 1 (on) <----- ?? keepsettings = 1 (on) <----- ?? nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on)
> does this help? > Joerg > > ps: sorry for the missing subjectline
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