On 07/25/2009 09:58 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
Wwll two things, one positive and one negative. The r column tells us there are not many processes waiting for run time which we normally associate with a low load average, However your number of interrupts per second (in) are rather high. Some kernel action seems to be really beating your machine over the head so to speak. How you find out what processes these are that are that are interrupting is not clear to me, however. Is your primary process doing a lot of I/O?
No, astropulse should be CPU bound, not IO bound. It reads in some data, performs *lots* of calculations on it (hours worth) and then writes the results out to a file which it then sends back to SETI, and downloads another work unit.
I'm very much intrested in how I can figure out where the interrupts are coming from....
so I ran 2 copies of "cat /proc/interurupts" 10 seconds apart, and here are the delta interrupts in that time....
CPU0 0: 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 0 IO-APIC-edge 6: 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy 7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 15: 209 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 16: 2790 IO-APIC-fasteoi ivtv0 18: 9 IO-APIC-fasteoi aic7xxx, cx88[0], cx88[0], cx88[0], eth0 20: 60 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2, NVidia CK8 21: 114 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb3 22: 21 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 246 Local timer interrupts RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 0 function call interrupts TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 0 MIS: 0
Could it be my ivtv0 (PVR-350) board? Its not supposed to be doing anything at the moment! There's nothing plugged into it, and its not configured under MythTV right now (cable went all digital)....
I'll try removing the driver module and see if that helps. At worst, I'll remove the board entirely.
Thanks Aaaron. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines