Re: sudden slow display response
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 09:17 +0200, Nacho wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:37:09PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > I also get a slow display response, seemingly whenever the filesystem is
> > accessed (see below too). Can't see anything wrong so please help. The
>
> I saw this same problem some time ago, and it was related to IRQs, the graphic
> card was using the same IRQ than the hard disk, and so when you heavy used the
> filesystems the graphic card became like freezed during small time intervals,
> such as 2 seconds freezed and 3 seconds not freezed and so...
>
> Could you look at your IRQs? Just execute this command:
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
This gives:
michael@ratty:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 3455168 3454744 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2089 2113 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 45202 45147 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
15: 51180 51814 IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 358763 358389 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci, eth0
18: 126420 126546 IO-APIC-level ide2
19: 0 0 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci
23: 65 50 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 6907635 6907619
ERR: 0
MIS: 1
which, I think, looks okay (?)
>
> Also, you may want to have a look at BIOS settings, often there are settings
> there related to the video card, such as using or not a IRQ, or which to use,
> or about usage memory of it...
>
> Hope it helps ;-)
>
> Nacho
>
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University of Manchester
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