On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:04 +0100, tobias wrote: > 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 [snip] Mote important than seeing all the processes is for you to do: lspci > lspci.txt lspci -v > lspci-v.txt and attach those 2 files to your reply. > 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] [snip] > 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. > > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise." -Ted Turner
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