From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751293AbVL3TW7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:22:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751294AbVL3TW7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:22:59 -0500 Received: from [202.67.154.148] ([202.67.154.148]:4495 "EHLO ns666.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbVL3TW6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:22:58 -0500 Message-ID: <43B5890E.30104@ns666.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:22:54 +0100 From: Mark v Wolher User-Agent: Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.1; U) X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Folkert van Heusden CC: Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing References: <43B53EAB.3070800@ns666.com> <9a8748490512300627w26569c06ndd4af05a8d6d73b6@mail.gmail.com> <43B557D7.6090005@ns666.com> <43B5623D.7080402@ns666.com> <20051230164751.GQ3105@vanheusden.com> <43B56ADD.7040300@ns666.com> <20051230183021.GV3105@vanheusden.com> In-Reply-To: <20051230183021.GV3105@vanheusden.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Folkert van Heusden wrote: >>>>>I'm not sure what to make of this, but it looks like only 1 cpu is kept >>>>>busy with interrupts: >>>>> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 >>>>> 0: 1033372 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer >>> >>>Install the 'irqbalance' package. >> >><..> >>Thanks ! I installed it now, it asked me something about a "one shot >>mode" but i chose no. Correct me if i should choose the other mode. >>Should i reboot for this to take effect ? Cause i still see the 0's >>under the other cpu's. > > > Not one-shot > reboot? depends on your distribution > try /usr/sbin/irqbalance from bash > > > Folkert van Heusden > Hmm, i disabled MSI in the kernel, irq-balancing is on in the kernel, and after a restart with irqbalance i see the cpu's show numbers ! I guess MSI was preventing them ? But does that means because of MSI that performance was lower in some way ? Here is the current cat: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 59805 40023 42523 38141 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 984 840 795 413 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 204851 189535 184425 184454 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 14: 21 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 13 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 2206 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth0 17: 9681 4489 6747 10672 IO-APIC-level bttv0 18: 48 16 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4 19: 5889 9693 22604 1560 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3 20: 5 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1 21: 16563 25276 23860 19548 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2, nvidia 22: 33248 15866 13468 33568 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3 23: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level Intel 82801DB-ICH4 24: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1 NMI: 0 0 0 0 LOC: 180380 180126 180378 180377 ERR: 0 MIS: 0