I submitted this request about a week ago, and have tested some of the
suggestions raised. See below for results. For completeness I include my
original post.
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UPDATE
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Every kernel runs DOG slow except for a vanilla 2.2.14 with the patch
included below (patch taken from the RedHat kernel-2.2.14-5.0.src.rpm
package.
This patch makes this following change to the kernel as reported on bootup:
< dcache_init(259068880l)Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
--- > dcache_init(257984l)Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)However, even if I manually increase this cache size in the 2.4.5 kernel, it still runs DOG slow. i.e. make dep takes 30-45 mins
Note that I have confirmed memory + disk bandwidth seems ok on the face of it:
Stream reports Function Rate (MB/s) RMS time Min time Max time Copy: 220.6927 0.1457 0.1450 0.1466 Scale: 215.8473 0.1485 0.1483 0.1488 Add: 266.8000 0.1805 0.1799 0.1813 Triad: 243.0946 0.1978 0.1975 0.1983
# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.21 seconds =105.79 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.79 seconds = 16.89 MB/sec
So I don't know what to think, any suggestions?
cat >linux-2.2.13-bigmem-dcache.patch <<EOF --- linux/fs/dcache.c.bigmem-dcache Tue Nov 16 18:41:05 1999 +++ linux/fs/dcache.c Tue Nov 16 18:42:19 1999 @@ -860,12 +860,11 @@ return ino; }
-void __init dcache_init(void) +void __init dcache_init(unsigned long memory_size) { int i, order; struct list_head *d; unsigned int nr_hash; - unsigned long memory_size;
/* * A constructor could be added for stable state like the lists, @@ -883,9 +882,6 @@ if (!dentry_cache) panic("Cannot create dentry cache");
- memory_size = num_physpages << PAGE_SHIFT; - memory_size >>= 13; - memory_size *= 2 * sizeof(void *); for (order = 0; ((1UL << order) << PAGE_SHIFT) < memory_size; order++);
do { --- linux/init/main.c.bigmem-dcache Tue Nov 16 18:41:06 1999 +++ linux/init/main.c Tue Nov 16 18:41:08 1999 @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ #endif uidcache_init(); filescache_init(); - dcache_init(); + dcache_init(memory_end-memory_start); vma_init(); buffer_init(memory_end-memory_start); page_cache_init(memory_end-memory_start); --- linux/include/linux/fs.h.bigmem-dcache Tue Nov 16 18:41:06 1999 +++ linux/include/linux/fs.h Tue Nov 16 18:41:08 1999 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ extern void buffer_init(unsigned long); extern void inode_init(void); extern void file_table_init(void); -extern void dcache_init(void); +extern void dcache_init(unsigned long);
typedef char buffer_block[BLOCK_SIZE]; EOF
------------- ORIGINAL POST -------------
[1.] Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
[2.]
I have a just brought a Compaq Armade 110 PIII, and am having a lot of trouble getting the kernel to operate effectively. The problem is that any kernel I run (except one pre-compiled RedHat kernel) runs very slowly. The thing is that disk IO tests seem fine, BogoMIPS reports high, but the system is dog-slow (kernel make dep takes ~45mins).
The kernel which works FAST (read ok) is: Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000
One of the kernels which works SLOW (have tried right through to 2.4.5): Linux version 2.2.14 (root@elvandar) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010604 (Debian prerelease))
[3.] Keywords - kernel, cpu, notebook, laptop [4.] Linux version 2.2.14 (root@elvandar) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010604 (Debian prerelease)) - although is as SLOW on any kernel up to 2.4.5 except the one above. [5.] Output of Oops.. - N/A [6.] Shell script - N/A
[7.] Environment [7.1.] Software Gnu C 2.95.4 Gnu make 3.79.1 binutils 2.11.90.0.7 util-linux util-linux Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available. util-linux Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make sure you have the util-linux fdutils package installed first). Also, there had been some util-linux major changes from version 4.x. Please refer to the documentation. util-linux mount 2.10f modutils 2.4.6 e2fsprogs 1.18 pcmcia-cs 3.1.22 PPP 2.4.1 Linux C Library 2.2.3 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.2.3 Procps 2.0.6 Net-tools 1.54 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded ds i82365 pcmcia_core eepro100 vfat fat smbfs
[7.2.] Processor info. One kernel which runs SLOW: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 797.084 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1589.24
Kernel which runs acceptably (speed wise): processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 797.050962 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 pn mmx fxsr xmm bogomips : 794.62
[7.3.] Module information ds 6736 1 i82365 29808 1 pcmcia_core 44480 0 [ds i82365] eepro100 15696 1 vfat 9312 0 (unused) fat 30368 0 [vfat] smbfs 25600 0 (unused)
[7.4.] Loaded driver and hardware information (/proc/ioports, /proc/iomem) 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 1460-1467 : ide0 1468-146f : ide1 d0046000-d004601f : Intel Speedo3 Ethernet
[7.5.] PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root) 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+ Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=7 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+ Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: f4100000-f57fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 Region 4: I/O ports at 1460 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 11 Region 4: I/O ports at 1440 Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20) Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b194 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 Region 1: I/O ports at 1474 Region 2: I/O ports at 1470 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09) Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2201 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 66 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f4020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O p
[7.6.] SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi) - N/A
[7.7.] Other information that might be relevant to the problem (please look in /proc and include all information that you think to be relevant):
There is a few messages that I am not clear on in the boot-up sequence.
For the kernel which runs FAST: Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 Detected 797050962 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 794.62 BogoMIPS Memory: 253564k/257984k available (1060k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2880k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done. Not enabling KNI unmasked exception support Exception 19 error handler not integrated yet Disabling CPUID Serial number...done. Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd83e PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1460-0x1467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive hdc: LG DVD-ROM DRN-8060B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=1222/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: KNI detected, trying cache-avoiding KNI checksum routine pIII_kni : 20.574 MB/sec raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 18.288 MB/sec p5_mmx : 17.145 MB/sec 8regs : 9.525 MB/sec 32regs : 5.715 MB/sec using fastest function: pIII_kni (20.574 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 248996k swap-space (priority -1) eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.18 $ 1999/12/29 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@msu.ru> The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0013->0017. eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xd0046000, 00:D0:59:2A:84:EB, IRQ 11. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 980100-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0xdbd8681d). eth0: 0 multicast blocks dropped. Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.8 kernel build: 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Intel PCIC probe: Unknown [0x104c 0xac50] PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 10, mem 0x68000000, 1 socket host opts [0]: [no pci irq] [lat 32/176] [bus 32/34] ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,10 polling interval = 1000 ms cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x158-0x15f 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
For one of the kernel's which runs SLOW: Linux version 2.2.14 (root@elvandar) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010604 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Tue Jun 26 11:10:12 WST 2001 Detected 797050962 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 794.62 BogoMIPS Memory: 253904k/257984k available (880k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2744k data, 40k init) Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Pentium-III serial number disabled. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd83e PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1460-0x1467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive hdc: LG DVD-ROM DRN-8060B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=1222/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0013->0017. eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x7b73, check settings before activating this device! eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at 0x1400, 00:B4:00:80:00:A6, IRQ 11. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 800080-000, Physical connectors present: Primary interface chip None PHY #0. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0xdbd8681d). Receiver lock-up workaround activated. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed Adding Swap: 248996k swap-space (priority -1)
[X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds: I reiterate - I have got the machine running acceptably (read speed is what I expect) by change on one pre-compiled RedHat kernel. EVERY other kernel I have compiled & tried runs DOG SLOW.
Would appreciate any help.
-- Daniel Harvey <daniel@amristar.com.au> Phone/Fax +61 8 9389 7844/33 Director, Amristar Pty Ltd; www.amristar.com.au Mobile +61 41 444 8136
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