[CLUE-Tech] Slow XWindow :-(

Marcin marbej at wp.pl
Sun Dec 15 14:13:55 MST 2002


Dnia nie 15. grudzień 2002 15:57, Chris Ernst napisał:

> How about DMA?  What's the output from:
>
> hdparm -tT /dev/hda

[root at ally]# hdparm -cdtT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
 using_dma = 1 (on)
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.94 seconds = 43.54 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  7.32 seconds =  8.74 MB/sec

Below is my all /var/log/dmesg :

Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile at stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc 
version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 
07:31:07 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000006000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 24576
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 20480 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=RedHat ro root=306
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233.870 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 94188k/98304k available (1129k kernel code, 3732k reserved, 791k 
data, 272k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 008005bf 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 008005bf 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008001bf 008005bf 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 008001bf 008005bf 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 02
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0586] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64  PnP'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT 
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 176 slots per queue, batch=44
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586b (rev 41) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: SAMSUNG SV3063H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CREATIVECD4020E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 59797584 sectors (30616 MB) w/426KiB Cache, CHS=3722/255/63, 
UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: Creative SB AWE64  PnP detected
sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB AWE64  PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1, 
5
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdb: DMA disabled

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Greetings from Poland,
Marcin Betlej
e-mail: marbej at wp.pl



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