seti@home is probably a lot like D2OL in that it utilizes the processor close to 100% for maths intensive calculations. that is the reason for the slowness. there is a way to allocate only a certain amount of cpu time to any process but wiser heads will have to advise how to do that. try installing xosview and that will let you see what is happenning, it should clear up the mystery. Janis On Friday 16 July 2004 09:13, Siegmund Langsch wrote:
Hello,
I've some problems with the following System:
1x QDI K8V800-6AL Board 2x 512 MB DDR RAM PC-400 1x Samsung 160GB IDE Platte 1x LiteOn 48x CD-Brenner 1x BenQ DW800 DVD-Brenner 1x Adaptec 3940UW Kontroller 1x Pioneer SCSI DVD-ROM 1x ATI Radeon 7500 Grafikkarte 1x 2,88MB Floppy
System is running SuSE 9.1 with all online Updates applied.
Problem 1.
If seti@home is running, the System reboots after max. 10 minutes with a warning message like "CPU temperatur 60 C stoping system / reboot" (not exactly, I am currently not working at that machine)
There is no Option in Mainboard Bios to set a "critical temperatur". So *where* I have to search to solve this problem? Any hints?
Problem 2.
The System is slow. Very, very slow. It takes *minutes* to open a terminal under KDE or any other WM. In /var/log/messages I've found some relevant ( I think so..) entries:
Jul 15 20:59:30 LXK0D85B2 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.5-7.95-default Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: Loaded 23728 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.5-7.95-default. Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.5. Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. [...] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (48 C) Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09d) Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB [...] Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jul 15 20:59:31 LXK0D85B2 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } [...] Jul 15 20:59:42 LXK0D85B2 kdm: :0[4317]: pam_unix2: session started for user armin, service xdm-np Jul 15 20:59:43 LXK0D85B2 hostname: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "LXK0D85B2.home.net IN A", got type "SIG" Jul 15 20:59:51 LXK0D85B2 artsd: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "LXK0D85B2.home.net IN A", got type "SIG" Jul 15 20:59:52 LXK0D85B2 kdeinit: knotify: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "LXK0D85B2.home.net IN A", got type "SIG" Jul 15 20:59:53 LXK0D85B2 kernel: ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer Jul 15 20:59:56 LXK0D85B2 last message repeated 18 times
I did not have direct access to this machine so I could not test the "noapic nolapic" boot Options. I'll do that this weekend. If this Options doesn't work I have no idea what to do *then*. Any ideas where I can look for a Solution?
Thanks a lot!
(Excuse my english, please...)
By, Siggi