Description of problem: No problems with Installation of Fedora Core 2 on Dell Insprion 8600 Laptop (1.7 Pentium M, 2 gigs pc2700 ram, Nvidia GeForce FX 5650, 2 gig swap partition). System boots very slowly, sometimes never finishing (Even when booting with X off). Even when system manages to boot performance is really really slow. Tried booting after removing one of the 1 gig ram sodimms and fedora ran perfectly. Had both sodimms tested and no problems found. Also they do not produce a similar problem in windows or Fedora Core 1 with old 2.4 kernel. I'm still really new to linux so any help would be appreciated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Initially kernel 2.6.5-1.358, now kernel ntfs-2.6.6-1.435 How reproducible: Increase system memory to 2 Gigs of ram. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Increase system memory to 2 gigs of ram 2. 3. Actual results: Problem occurs when system memory is more than one gig of ram Expected results: Problem occurs when system memory is more than one gig of ram Additional info:
can you attach the output of cat /proc/mtrr and dmesg ?
when system has only 1 gig of ram installed: [root@Sky root]# cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xfeda0000 (4077MB), size= 128KB: write-through, count=1 reg02: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=1 [root@Sky root]# dmesg Linux version 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Thu Jul 1 08:25:29 EDT 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffae000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003ffae000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 1023MB LOWMEM available. zapping low mappings. On node 0 totalpages: 262062 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 257966 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fdf00 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4041a ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x3fff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4041a ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x3fff0400 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02346000 soft=02345000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes) Detected 1699.231 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Memory: 1036320k/1048248k available (1552k kernel code, 11188k reserved, 603k data, 144k init, 0k highmem) Calibrating delay loop... 3358.72 BogoMIPS Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed. selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: a7e9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: a7e9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K CPU: After all inits, caps: a7e9f1bf 00000000 00000000 00000040 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz stepping 05 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 188k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc96e, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 7 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 apm: BIOS not found. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1089162276.973:0): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (54 C) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 855PM Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ICH4: chipset revision 1 ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: HTS726060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive Using cfq io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: _NEC DVD+RW ND-6100A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7877KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5) md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022deac0(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6106 Wed Jun 23 08:14:01 PDT 2004 agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent) ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem 428a3c00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0000bf80 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0000bf40 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0000bf20 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Bluetooth: Core ver 2.5 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.6 usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm.com hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x54 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 13142016 Adding 2040212k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran> microcode: No new microdata for cpu 0 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] SCSI subsystem initialized inserting floppy driver for 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 floppy0: no floppy controllers found ohci1394: $Rev: 1203 $ Ben Collins <bcollins> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[faffd800-faffdfff] Max Packet=[2048] b44.c:v0.94 (May 4, 2004) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0d:56:39:85:89 divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8189 buckets, 65512 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack b44.c:v0.94 (May 4, 2004) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0d:56:39:85:89 driverloader: stack=4096/76/0 REGPARM 0000:02:03.0: cache line size not set; forcing 32 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002) eth1: WPA, AES, TKIP, WEP128, WEP64 supported eth1: at 0000:02:03.0 (MAC address 00:90:4B:1B:B8:7A) ready eth1: New link status: Connected (0001) Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002) Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1028:016a] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0478, PCI irq 11 Socket status: 30000006 cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready eth1: no IPv6 routers present agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49409 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000
any improvements with latest updates ?
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.