Re: Warning, user cutting in: Kernel 2.2.14, dirty buffers, stalls in performance ...

From: Tim Walberg (tewalberg@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 15:58:56 EST


On 03/28/2000 14:45 -0500, Bryan -TheBS- Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>> [root@thor /root]# cat /proc/interrupts
>> CPU0
>> 0: 78030234 XT-PIC timer
>> 1: 5517 XT-PIC keyboard
>> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
>> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
>> 10: 31594636 XT-PIC gdth
>> 12: 621 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
>> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
>> 15: 234737971 XT-PIC eth0
>> NMI: 0
>>
>> Whoa! Does eth0 on Int15h raise a big flag in anyone else's
>> book?!?!?!
>>

Yes, and that's something I've been curious about myself, but
haven't had the chance to dig into yet. Here's from my box
(Dual PPro 200 Supermicro P6DNE m/b, kernel is 2.2.14,
rest of system is "mostly" Red Hat 6.0):

                   CPU0 CPU1
          0: 172723978 0 XT-PIC timer
          1: 48646 150569 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
          2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
          3: 456472 471276 IO-APIC-level eth1
          4: 3813643 9735656 IO-APIC-edge serial
          5: 1680958 2361956 IO-APIC-edge soundblaster
          7: 161635102 1703469 IO-APIC-level eth0
          8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
         12: 2303989 3256730 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
         13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
         14: 3550421 4248279 IO-APIC-edge ide0
         15: 4331842 5582117 IO-APIC-edge ide1
        NMI: 0
        ERR: 0
        
        PCI devices found:
          Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
            Host bridge: Intel 82441FX Natoma (rev 2).
              Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
          Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
            ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
              Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
          Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
            IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
              Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
              I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
          Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
            VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Vision 968 (rev 0).
              Medium devsel. IRQ 10.
              Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80000000 [0x80000000].
          Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
            SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7871 (rev 0).
              Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
              I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
              Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebff000 [0xfebff000].
eth0 --> Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
            Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
              Medium devsel. IRQ 7. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
              I/O at 0xe880 [0xe881].
              Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebfef80 [0xfebfef80].
eth1 --> Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
            Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C900 10bTPO (rev 0).
              Medium devsel. IRQ 3. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.
              I/O at 0xef00 [0xef01].

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