Re: performance problem
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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