Re: performance problem - workaround
There is a workaround for my problem: downgrading to kernel 2.4. Everything
works fine.
Am Montag 31 Januar 2005 21:04 schrieb tobias:
> Hello everybody,
>
> thank you for your help so far, unfortunately my problem isn't solved.
> All drives are set to DMA mode, the X-server has nice-level 0. Even a
> higher value gives no improvement. Still the pointer stumbles
> periodically, as well as mp3 playback and even text output.
>
> I'm wondering if this could be a more serious problem related to the
> chipset (it's a VIA KX-133) or the PCI/IDE subsystem? There is a
> suspicious output of dmesg:
>
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
>
> Could somebody explain this to me? Does "fail" mean something malicious
> and could this be related to my performance problem?
>
> Here comes the output of ps aux - perhaps somebody sees some unusual
> process which eats my system performance...
>
> Thank you in advance and best wishes,
> Tobias
>
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.0 0.0 1500 516 ? S 20:24 0:00 init [2]
> root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 20:24 0:01
> [ksoftirqd/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:24
> 0:00 [events/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:24
> 0:00 [khelper] root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:24
> 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24
> 0:00 [pdflush] root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24
> 0:01 [pdflush] root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:24
> 0:00 [aio/0] root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:00
> [kswapd0] root 180 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:00
> [kseriod] root 293 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:00
> [kjournald] root 334 0.0 0.0 1480 356 ? S<s 20:24 0:00
> udevd root 806 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:01
> [kjournald] root 999 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:00
> [khubd] root 1762 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:00
> [scsi_eh_0] root 1763 0.7 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:24 0:16
> [usb-storage] root 2854 0.0 0.1 2372 876 ? Ss 20:25
> 0:00 dhclient -e -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/run/d
> daemon 2858 0.0 0.0 1608 452 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/portmap root 3371 0.0 0.1 2256 808 ? Ss 20:25
> 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 3374 0.0 0.2 2456 1472 ? Ss 20:25
> 0:00 /sbin/klogd root 3384 0.0 0.5 6360 2832 ? Ss 20:25
> 0:00
> /usr/sbin/cupsd
> message 3407 0.0 0.1 2080 992 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /usr/bin/dbus-daemon-1 --system
> hal 3411 1.2 1.1 7384 5796 ? Ss 20:25 0:29
> /usr/sbin/hald --drop-privileges
> root 3416 0.0 0.1 2236 708 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /usr/sbin/inetd
> root 3430 0.0 0.2 3464 1520 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /usr/sbin/sshd
> root 3445 0.0 0.9 6560 5068 ? Ss 20:25 0:01
> /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
> sctobias 3601 0.0 0.3 3116 1760 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /usr/sbin/famd -T 0
> daemon 3604 0.0 0.1 1680 636 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /usr/sbin/atd root 3608 0.0 0.1 1752 724 ? Ss 20:25
> 0:00
> /usr/sbin/cron
> root 3646 0.0 0.1 2524 708 ? Ss 20:25 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm
> root 3674 0.0 0.0 1496 480 tty1 Ss+ 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> root 3683 0.0 0.0 1496 480 tty2 Ss+ 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> root 3684 0.0 0.0 1496 480 tty3 Ss+ 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
> root 3685 0.0 0.0 1496 480 tty4 Ss+ 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
> root 3686 0.0 0.0 1496 480 tty5 Ss+ 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
> root 3687 0.0 0.0 1496 480 tty6 Ss+ 20:25 0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
> root 3761 6.1 2.8 74508 14552 ? S 20:25 2:23
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-p
> root 3792 0.0 0.2 3128 1292 ? S 20:25 0:00 -:0
> sctobias 3846 0.0 0.2 2744 1296 ? S 20:25 0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/bin/startkde
> sctobias 3898 0.0 0.1 2984 904 ? Ss 20:25 0:00
> /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/startkde
> sctobias 3919 0.0 1.8 22336 9352 ? Ss 20:25 0:00 kdeinit
> Running...
> sctobias 3922 0.0 1.7 22144 8836 ? S 20:25 0:00 kdeinit:
> dcopserver --nosid
> sctobias 3924 0.0 1.9 24016 10072 ? S 20:25 0:00 kdeinit:
> klauncher
> sctobias 3927 0.5 2.8 28432 14892 ? S 20:25 0:12 kdeinit:
> kded sctobias 3935 0.0 2.5 24740 12936 ? S 20:25 0:00
> kdeinit: kxkb sctobias 3941 4.8 3.1 30160 16264 ? S 20:25
> 1:51
> /usr/bin/artsd -F 128 -S 8192 -a alsa -m artsmessage -c d
> sctobias 3945 0.0 2.6 30124 13932 ? S 20:25 0:00 kdeinit:
> knotify
> sctobias 3946 0.0 0.0 1492 332 ? S 20:25 0:00 kwrapper
> ksmserver
> sctobias 3948 0.0 2.1 23332 11160 ? S 20:25 0:00 kdeinit:
> ksmserver
> sctobias 3949 0.1 2.6 25696 13740 ? S 20:25 0:03 kdeinit:
> kwin -session 10da6f6d65000110676368800000223620
> sctobias 3951 0.0 2.2 23612 11528 ? S 20:25 0:00 kdeinit:
> khotkeys
> sctobias 3953 0.1 3.0 28604 15860 ? S 20:25 0:03 kdeinit:
> kdesktop
> sctobias 3955 0.6 3.9 37232 20540 ? S 20:25 0:14 kdeinit:
> kicker
> sctobias 3956 0.0 1.9 24504 10240 ? S 20:25 0:00 kdeinit:
> kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-sctobias/klauncherHZ6
> sctobias 3961 0.0 2.4 26128 12396 ? S 20:25 0:00
> kweatherservice
> sctobias 3973 0.0 3.0 30340 15824 ? S 20:26 0:01 korgac
> --miniicon korganizer
> sctobias 3974 3.6 4.7 40360 24400 ? S 20:26 1:23 juk
> -session 10da6f6d65000110700519000000037960013_110709
> sctobias 3975 0.2 2.8 28240 14924 ? S 20:28 0:04 kdeinit:
> konsole --type su
> root 3976 0.0 0.2 2576 1456 pts/1 Ss 20:28 0:00 -su
> sctobias 4039 0.0 2.9 28120 15160 ? S 20:40 0:00 kdeinit:
> konsole --type linux
> sctobias 4040 0.0 0.3 3048 1688 pts/2 Ss+ 20:40 0:00 bash
> sctobias 4044 0.0 0.2 2764 1320 ? S 20:45 0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
> sctobias 4074 0.0 0.2 2796 1336 ? S 20:45 0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /usr/
> sctobias 4079 7.6 7.7 152508 40280 ? S 20:45 1:26
> /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird-bin -con
> sctobias 4082 0.0 0.4 4016 2332 ? S 20:45 0:00
> /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 17
> sctobias 4100 1.4 4.9 47084 25496 ? S 20:48 0:14 kdeinit:
> konqueror --silent
> root 4138 0.0 0.1 2492 848 pts/1 R+ 21:04 0:00 ps aux
>
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:22:11 +0100, tobias <t.schlegelmilch@web.de> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > recently I decided to switch from fedora to Debian Sarge. The
> > installation via the netinstall disk image went through smoothly and I
> > am a happy new Debain user now.
> >
> > But: there is a strange performance problem which wasn't there before.
> > Using Gnome or KDE every couple of seconds the mouse poiner "stumbles",
> > regardless if I use a USB or ps/2 device. There is also a short delay
> > moving windows or even displaying text while typing. Moreover smooth
> > playing of mp3s is not possible - seems to be the same problem.
> >
> > Using top or similar programs I wasn't able to identify a process which
> > eats up my system performance. The CPU has something around 5%, load
> > average around 0.4.
> >
> > Has anybody encountered similar problems? I would appreciate hints how
> > to deal with this problem.
> > Or could it be that the hardware is too old? It's a 700MHz Athlon,
> > 512MB... should be able to play mp3, I think. On fedora, there was a 2.4
> > kernel, now it's 2.6.8. Naively, I would expected a performance gain.
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