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zambizzi
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Location: Boise Idaho
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 Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:08 am Post subject: hard drive constantly busy!? |
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I'm running a dual-boot box w/ a single hard drive, partitioned in half, w/ Gentoo on one side and Windows XP on the other.
When I boot into Gentoo & KDE I've noticed that my hard drive light on the front of the box is always flickering and running at a steady pace...it never calms down...as if there is constant activity. This never stops...even if I run Gentoo for several hours straight.
When I boot into XP, after everything finishes booting up...the light goes out until I run something.
I've got a fairly new ('bout 4 mo. old) Dell Dimension 8400, general specs are:
3GHz P4 (w/ HT)
120GB SATA HD
1GHz DDR2 SDRAM
256MB nVidia 6800 GT vid. card
SB Audigy 24-bit sound card
My Gentoo looks like this:
kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 (smp enabled, sata drivers are correct as it all works)
nVidia 1066.x drivers (latest un-masked)
X.org (latest available un-masked)
KDE 3.4.1
Some points:
1. No boot errors or problems
2. Did not install slocate, so that's not it.
3. The system performace is fine...great in fact...no complaints there at all! I've been multi-tasking the hell out of it w/o zero noticeable degredation in performance...putting XP to *shame* on this system.
4. KDE sysguard shows normal processor & memory activity (about 30% RAM in use - non-cache, cpu spiking between 0%-3%)
5. hdparm -tT test yields predictable results (hopefully?) but w/ some weird messages:
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/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 4368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2184.33 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.00 seconds = 56.66 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
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...I get the same warnings when trying to activate settings w/ hdparm...not sure why, could this have something to do w/ it?
That's all I can think of, anyone have any ideas?
I appreciate all the help, thanks guys!
EDIT:
Here's my "ps ux" output:
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USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 1544 512 ? S 22:53 0:00 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [migration/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 22:53 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [migration/1]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 22:53 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [events/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [events/1]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [khelper]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [kthread]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [kacpid]
root 85 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 86 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [kblockd/1]
root 89 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [khubd]
root 141 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [pdflush]
root 142 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [pdflush]
root 143 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 144 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [aio/0]
root 145 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [aio/1]
root 227 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [kseriod]
root 329 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [ata/0]
root 330 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 22:53 0:00 [ata/1]
root 332 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 333 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 334 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 335 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root 372 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [kirqd]
root 373 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 22:53 0:00 [kjournald]
root 424 0.0 0.0 1544 492 ? S<s 22:53 0:00 udevd
root 5846 0.0 0.0 1612 628 ? Ss 22:53 0:00 metalog [MASTER]
root 5847 0.0 0.0 1600 524 ? S 22:53 0:00 metalog [KERNEL]
root 5991 0.0 0.2 3976 2480 ? Ss 22:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root 6027 0.0 0.2 4344 2040 ? Ss 22:53 0:00 /usr/bin/ivman
root 6669 0.0 0.0 1556 452 ? Ss 22:53 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -h homer -R -N -Y eth0
root 6976 0.0 0.0 1820 736 ? Ss 22:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 7038 0.0 0.0 1588 620 tty1 Ss+ 22:53 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
root 7039 0.0 0.0 1588 620 tty2 Ss+ 22:53 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
root 7040 0.0 0.0 1584 616 tty3 Ss+ 22:53 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
root 7042 0.0 0.0 1584 620 tty4 Ss+ 22:53 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
root 7043 0.0 0.0 1588 624 tty5 Ss+ 22:53 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
root 7045 0.0 0.0 1588 620 tty6 Ss+ 22:53 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
root 7315 0.0 0.0 2592 748 ? Ss 22:53 0:00 /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kdm
root 7318 1.1 2.3 25632 21608 ? SL 22:53 0:11 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /va
root 7319 0.0 0.1 3360 1424 ? S 22:53 0:00 -:0
root 7656 0.0 0.1 2272 1000 pts/1 S 23:04 0:00 su
root 7659 0.0 0.1 2404 1344 pts/1 S 23:04 0:00 bash
root 7685 0.0 0.0 2552 868 pts/1 R+ 23:10 0:00 ps ux
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| It could be metalog. What's your dmesg ouput look like? Maybe metalog is getting flooded so it has to write frequently? What about lsmod output? Those error/warning messages are due to using hdparm(libata utility) on a sata drive(not really 100% libata at this point) |
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zambizzi
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Location: Boise Idaho
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| s0be wrote: | | It could be metalog. What's your dmesg ouput look like? Maybe metalog is getting flooded so it has to write frequently? |
I shut metalog off and the light didn't turn off. Here's the output from dmesg:
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Linux version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 (root@homer) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #5 SMP Sat Jul 30 21:45:19 MDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe8cc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fe8cc00 - 000000003fe8ec00 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fe8ec00 - 000000003fe90c00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fe90c00 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000feda0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000febf0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL 8400 0x00000007 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fccbc
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL 8400 0x00000007 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fccf8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffc948c
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL 8400 0x00000007 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fcd6c
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL 8400 0x00000007 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fcdde
ACPI: MCFG (v001 DELL 8400 0x00000007 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fce06
ACPI: HPET (v001 DELL 8400 0x00000007 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fce44
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x07] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] high level lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda7
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2994.076 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 904660k/917504k available (2734k kernel code, 12336k reserved, 1075k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5898.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=2949120)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000000 0000649d 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000000 0000649d 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000080 0000649d 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (24) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay loop... 5980.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=2990080)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000000 0000649d 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000000 0000649d 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20000000 00000000 00000080 0000649d 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (24) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
Total of 2 processors activated (11878.40 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 3
groups: 1 2
domain 1: span 3
groups: 3
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 3
groups: 2 1
domain 1: span 3
groups: 3
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb768, last bus=4
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff has been reserved
Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1123313892.886:0): initialized
inotify device minor=63
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver 2.1.22 [Flags: R/W].
Initializing Cryptographic API
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 0xc
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD] at 0x60,0x64 irq 112
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:01.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ttyS5 at I/O 0xdc08 (irq = 17) is a 16450
ttyS6 at I/O 0xdc10 (irq = 17) is a 8250
ttyS7 at I/O 0xdc18 (irq = 17) is a 16450
ttyS1 at I/O 0xdc20 (irq = 17) is a 8250
ttyS2 at I/O 0xdc28 (irq = 17) is a 8250
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)]
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ICH6: chipset revision 3
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.11 loaded.
ahci version 1.00
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ahci(0000:00:1f.2) AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 4 ports 1.5 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode
ahci(0000:00:1f.2) flags: 64bit ncq pm led slum part
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8804D00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8804D80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8804E00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8804E80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312500000 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ahci
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : ahci
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : ahci
ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi3 : ahci
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160023AS Rev: 8.12
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 312500000 512-byte hdwr sectors (160000 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 312500000 512-byte hdwr sectors (160000 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usbmon: debugs is not available
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9rc2 (Thu Mar 24 10:33:39 2005 UTC).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Model 1007 Rev 00000000 Serial 10071102
ALSA device list:
#0: Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0413] at 0xd8e0 irq 18
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (7168 buckets, 57344 max) - 220 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Starting balanced_irq
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
Adding 530108k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal
tg3.c:v3.31 (June 8, 2005)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001 PHY(5750)] (PCIX:100MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:11:11:e2:f3:01
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[1] MIirq[1] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000]
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000ff80
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 22, io base 0x0000ff60
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000ff40
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 23, io base 0x0000ff20
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 21, io mem 0xffa80800
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:12:51 PST 2004
NTFS volume version 3.1.
usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
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That's pretty handy...I had no idea it was there (there are gaps in my linux knowledge  )
I noticed this:
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Warning only 896MB will be used.
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Why is that!!?? What can I tweak in my kernel to get full use of my RAM? Come to think of it...I thought I remembered seeing something about HIGHMEM...but it didn't appear that I'd need it...perhaps that's it?
But...later it says this:
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Memory: 904660k/917504k available (2734k kernel code, 12336k reserved, 1075k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)
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Now highmem is OK? 
Later, there's this:
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EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
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...no idea what that means. It makes me wonder though...could the filesystem be doing something, keeping the drive busy? Can I tweak the ext3 partition to change something?
| s0be wrote: | | What about lsmod output? |
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Module Size Used by
nvidia 3462876 12
usblp 11648 0
usbhid 25860 0
usb_storage 30596 0
ehci_hcd 29832 0
uhci_hcd 30736 0
ohci_hcd 19588 0
tg3 95620 0
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| s0be wrote: | | Those error/warning messages are due to using hdparm(libata utility) on a sata drive(not really 100% libata at this point) |
I figured it was something like that...I can't use a few of the hdparm options which don't sound like they'd apply to a SATA drive.
Thanks!
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Also, here's my rc-update output...maybe someone will spot something here that shouldn't be running on boot:
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alsasound | boot
apache2 |
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
crypto-loop |
cupsd |
dbus | default
domainname | default
famd |
firebird |
gpm |
hald | default
hdparm |
hostname | boot
hotplug |
ivman | default
keymaps | boot
lisa |
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
metalog | default
modules | boot
mysql |
net.eth0 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
nscd |
numlock | default
portmap |
pwcheck |
reslisa |
rmnologin | boot
rsyncd |
samba |
saslauthd |
serial | boot
sshd |
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
vmware |
wrapper.pl |
xdm | default
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Tlaloc
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zambizzi
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Location: Boise Idaho
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject: ALSA?? |
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| Tlaloc wrote: | | Maybe it is this. |
Tried it - but that wasn't it.
I rebooted a couple of times and watched to see at what point the light comes on and sticks....and it's definitely while the kernel is booting...long before we get to X & KDE.
It happens at this line in the boot message from dmesg posted above:
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ALSA device list:
#0: Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0413] at 0xd8e0 irq 18
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It sticks there for 2-3 seconds and then blam! The hard disk light on the front of the box pops on and stays lit.
Could alsa or my snd card drivers somehow cause my hard drive to constantly spin? My sound seems to be working great...no problems there so far.
Hope this leads us somewhere!
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zambizzi
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Location: Boise Idaho
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: THIS JUST IN... |
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I've been playing around and removed alsa and my sound card from the kernel config...that wasn't causing it either. I thought perhaps it was ACPI...so I removed that as well (don't need it anyhow.)
That wasn't it either.
Now it appears that the light pops on where libata is being loaded.
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libata version 1.11 loaded.
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Are there known bugs/issues w/ libata on SATA drives?
Should I be worried?
Any tweaks I can do to adjust libata to play nicer, if this is the problem? Do I absolutely need it since I don't have any ATA drives? What else does libata do? Is anyone paying attention to me?  [/code](just jokes) |
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widan
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Location: Paris, France
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| zambizzi wrote: | I noticed this:
| Code: | | Warning only 896MB will be used. |
Why is that!!?? What can I tweak in my kernel to get full use of my RAM? Come to think of it...I thought I remembered seeing something about HIGHMEM...but it didn't appear that I'd need it...perhaps that's it?
But...later it says this:
| Code: | | Memory: 904660k/917504k available (2734k kernel code, 12336k reserved, 1075k data, 220k init, 0k highmem) |
Now highmem is OK? |
It seems you have 1GB RAM. In order to use that much RAM, you need to set HIGHMEM to 4G in the kernel configuration. Here it is not set (you have 0k highmem).
| zambizzi wrote: | | Do I absolutely need [libata] since I don't have any ATA drives? |
| Code: | ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312500000 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160023AS Rev: 8.12
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 |
You have a Serial ATA drive, so you need libata. Also from your dmesg you are using an AHCI controller. The AHCI driver is apparently known to cause the activity LED to stay always on. You can try to apply that patch:
| Code: | # cd /usr/src/linux
# wget http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2005/8/4/35/1 -O ahci-led.diff
# patch -p1 < ahci-led.diff |
Then recompile your kernel. |
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zambizzi
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It seems you have 1GB RAM. In order to use that much RAM, you need to set HIGHMEM to 4G in the kernel configuration. Here it is not set (you have 0k highmem).
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Yes, you're right, I did this on a hunch and got myself another 126MB ram...sweet!
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You have a Serial ATA drive, so you need libata.
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I was afraid of that, can't figure out how to get rid of it anyhow.
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Also from your dmesg you are using an AHCI controller. The AHCI driver is apparently known to cause the activity LED to stay always on. You can try to apply that patch:
| Code: | # cd /usr/src/linux
# wget http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2005/8/4/35/1 -O ahci-led.diff
# patch -p1 < ahci-led.diff |
Then recompile your kernel. |
Holy hell, is that all it is!? I couldn't care less as long as I'm not spinning my hard drive to death...and it sounds like I'm not.
I'm not sure I'll even bother w/ the patch since I'd have to re-patch it every time I re-compile my kernel...which is more work than I'm up to.
However, just to satisfy my curiosity...maybe I should just try it...what could it hurt? I could just ignore it after my next kernel compile if it turns out to be the cure (to an almost-non-issue).
Thanks a bunch! |
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