On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 09:17 +0200, Nacho wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:37:09PM +0100, michael wrote: > > I also get a slow display response, seemingly whenever the filesystem is > > accessed (see below too). Can't see anything wrong so please help. The > > I saw this same problem some time ago, and it was related to IRQs, the graphic > card was using the same IRQ than the hard disk, and so when you heavy used the > filesystems the graphic card became like freezed during small time intervals, > such as 2 seconds freezed and 3 seconds not freezed and so... > > Could you look at your IRQs? Just execute this command: > > cat /proc/interrupts
This gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 3455168 3454744 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2089 2113 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 12: 45202 45147 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse 15: 51180 51814 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 358763 358389 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci, eth0 18: 126420 126546 IO-APIC-level ide2 19: 0 0 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci 23: 65 50 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd NMI: 0 0 LOC: 6907635 6907619 ERR: 0 MIS: 1 which, I think, looks okay (?) > > Also, you may want to have a look at BIOS settings, often there are settings > there related to the video card, such as using or not a IRQ, or which to use, > or about usage memory of it... > > Hope it helps ;-) > > Nacho > > -- > No book comes out of a vacuum (G. Buehler) > http://www.lascartasdelavida.com > > -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]