Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Thanks. Top doesn't show anything excessive, and it looks like DMA is
> the culprit:
> 
> hardy@hardy-laptop:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/sda
> [sudo] password for hardy:
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  IO_support    =  0 (default)
> 16-bit)
>  HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  readonly      =  0 (off)
>  readahead     = 256 (on)
>  geometry      = 9729/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0

thats nothing unusual because the disk is sata.
i don't believe its dma

> What can I do to remedy that?

boot in single user and look if the problem is there also.
-> if it is, its a kernel problem

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Florian Reitmeir