Bug 60148 - Ugly system responsiveness with high disk IO
Summary: Ugly system responsiveness with high disk IO
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-02-20 22:58 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-02-28 09:56:05 UTC
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2002-02-20 23:03 UTC, Need Real Name
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Description Need Real Name 2002-02-20 22:58:24 UTC
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Description of problem:
I use my RedHat Linux system on an Asus A7A266 motherboard (with an Ali chipset
with DDR ram, probably the cause of the problem). When I do some disk IO on my
IDE drives, the system is becoming unusable from a user point of view. 

Under heavy IDE load, il was able to get this :
rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The hardest part will probably be to find similar hardware.
A good way is to insert a CD in the CD-ROM drive with one big file. and copy it
to the hard drive. Then just try to move the mouse and you'll notice the problem.

Additional info:

I have tried to put my hard disk in another system (Asus A7V266), pretty similar
to mine (but different chipset) and the system runs just smoothly. I already
tried a BIOS upgrade and a Kernel upgrade. I'm running RedHat's latest Kernel
RPM 2.4.9-21.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-02-20 23:03:38 UTC
Created attachment 46180 [details]
dmesg, lspci, ...

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-02-28 09:55:23 UTC
can you see if dma is enabled for the ide devices ?


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