Re: PS2 mouse going nuts during cdparanoia session.

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 12:31:22 EST


On Wed, Jul 16 2003, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > Also Dave, can you try
> > > > and do a vmstat 1 while ripping and PS2 dropping out?
> > > Ok, I just fired that up in another window.
> > > When it happens next, I'll mail off a snapshot..
> > Thanks.
>
> Well, that didn't take long..
>
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> 2 0 109376 9632 2576 44368 0 0 136 28 1636 1304 1 4 90 4
> 0 0 109376 8036 2588 45852 0 0 1492 0 2166 15874 2 11 82 5
> 1 0 109376 8036 2588 45852 0 0 0 0 1089 1230 1 1 99 0
> 1 0 109376 8004 2612 45896 0 0 8 144 2660 1088 1 11 85 4
> 1 0 109376 5880 2616 46436 0 0 0 0 1338 1263 2 24 74 0
> 2 0 109376 5512 2576 45320 0 0 0 72 2108 1434 4 35 61 0
> 2 0 109376 5816 2520 45252 56 0 60 940 1852 2340 6 33 59 2
> 1 0 109376 4880 2448 45800 0 0 0 520 1940 2930 6 33 60 2
> 0 0 109376 5468 2412 45300 0 0 16 1672 2504 3077 9 42 44 7
> 1 0 109376 5532 2396 45792 0 0 0 344 2172 3504 4 33 61 2
> 1 0 109376 4132 2416 46452 0 0 8 4 2727 3483 5 39 54 1
> 0 0 109376 4864 2384 45484 0 0 4 1324 2186 3448 5 34 59 4
> 1 0 109376 5024 2384 46436 0 0 0 600 2484 3533 4 36 58 2
>
> Lost sync here. Mouse dancing. vmstat output stopped for a few seconds.

Doesn't look really bogged down by interrupt load, still half idle. So
that looks like a PS2 bug. Unless the irq latencies are really bad, I
guess that could be it too. Vojtech knows a hell of a lot more about
that than me :)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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