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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:06:15 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Shizuka Kudo <shizukakudo_99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: High % interrupt when building world
Message-ID:  <20030228150615.GA2816@fourtytwo.brucec.backnet>
In-Reply-To: <20030228122151.55902.qmail@web11408.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030228122151.55902.qmail@web11408.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:21:51AM -0800, Shizuka Kudo wrote:
> I recently cvsup-ped -current (I believe it was 27 Feb), and noticed that the system was not
> responsive as before when building world. Looking at the output of "top" showed a 30-60% interrupt
> usage.  I believed it is related to my highpoint 370 card running at raid 1.  I detached the cards
> and attached one of the drives to ata0 (Intel i815EP) and ran buildworld again. The % shown was
> much less (less than 10%).  Has Anyone else seen such an issue?
> 
> I also reverted the src/sys to Feb 24 UTC which was just before sos' commits on the new API. The
> problem also went away and the "top" % interrupt was at around 1-2% range.
> 

I've also seen very poor performance on my Promise FastTrak TX2 'Lite' controller on my A7V333
motherboard.   I get 3-5MB/sec, and copying files takes a very long time.  When I move it back
to the 'normal' ata controller the speed goes up to the more normal 40-45MB/sec.  Both controllers
detect and use ATA100.  I'm running 5.0-RELEASE-p3.  Have the recent ata patches maybe sorted this?

>dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1024k count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 31.741188 secs (3303518 bytes/sec)

dmesg output:

atapci0: <Promise TX2 ATA133 controller> port 0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb803,0xd000-0xd007,0xd400-0xd403,0xd800-0xd807 mem 0xd4800000-0xd4803fff irq 6 at device 6.0 on pci0
atapci1: <VIA 8233 ATA133 controller> port 0x9400-0x940f at device 17.1 on pci0

ad0: 76219 <WDC WD800BB-00CAA1> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100  (using motherboard IDE)
ar0: 58644MB <ATA RAID0 array> [7476/255/63] status: READY subdisks    (using FastTrak controller)

Bruce Cran



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