On Thursday 16 January 2003 20.25, René Matthäi wrote:
Hi (sorry for my mailing problems),
on my system I run donkey_v59-4-gaps by ed2k_gui with nice (10). After launching checks or re-creates md5 hash keys of all shared files (here many big films). You can then hear donkey accessing the disk and regularly making short pauses (ca. 1 s) - while the whole system does nothing (I suppose): no mouse movement (but it "remembers" your input), even the transfer while copying files pauses. WHY?!
My System: Duron 950 with 768 MB RAM on EPOX 8TKA3 (VIA 686B) Disk in question Maxtor 80 GB 7200 UPM at PM-Onboard UDMA5 Partitions with films ext3 resp. vfat (Plextor 241040TA UDMA2 at SM-Onboard - not mounted) (Promise Utra 100 TX2 with 2. disk) (IBM 40 GB 7200 UPM at PM-Promise UDMA5 - System on RAID-0) (Pioneer DVD at SM-Promise UDMA4 - not mounted)
SuSE-Linux 8.1 with 2.4.20-vanilla (with TIOCGDEV patch which I think doesn't do anything, and lm_sensors/i2c_modules (don't work either, but no errors: sensors just don't find anything) and nvidia module (works fine)
(I think I'll be going to write another mail soon about the problem that while copying a film from vfat to vfat on another partiton on the same harddisk - maybe relatively strongly fragmented - I only get transfer rates of 0.8 MB/s average. This is to slow, isn't it?!? Maybe all this has to do with each other.)
At the bottom of this mail you'll find the outputs of hdparm -iv /dev/hd*
Regards,
Ré
/dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 10011/255/63, sectors = 160836480, start = 0
Model=IC35L080AVVA07-0, FwRev=VA4OA50K, SerialNo=VNC400A4L0DU8A Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=52 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1863kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160836480 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1: 2 3 4 5
/dev/hdc: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
Model=PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A, FwRev=1.04, SerialNo=461029 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic } RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:180,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 AdvancedPM=no
/dev/hde: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 79408/16/63, sectors = 80043264, start = 0
Model=Maxtor 5T040H4, FwRev=TAH71DP0, SerialNo=T4HBQ4HC Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80043264 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0: 1 2 3 4 5 6
/dev/hdg: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 1 (on) readahead = 8 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
Model=Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0122, FwRev=E1.22, SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic } RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=13395, BuffSize=64kB, MaxMultSect=0 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 AdvancedPM=no Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 5
MIGHT be a DNS problem. Do you have a specific task that freezes the thing? Or is it a random thing? Those short hickups tend to be something waiting for something else -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >