2 Jan
2004
2 Jan
'04
8:50 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 05:10, John Anderson wrote:
It's been while since this thread was started, so
here's a refresher on
the box: Uniprocessor Athlon XP 2200+, 1Gb RAM, 36Gb Ultra3 SCSI
(Adaptec 29160 with Fujitsu MAN3367 drive). MSI K7N2 Delta motherboard.
Terratec EWS88MT soundcard. Using reiserfs as the filesystem.
This is all FYI at this point. I'm going to try to get hold of a fast
IDE disk, to see if the problem is somehow related to the SCSI subsystem
or drivers.
This may sound strange but there have been reports of problems using
SCSI disk drives. IIRC it had something to do with the Adaptec (29160)
controllers. A really good article on SCSI vs IDE is at
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/1A37C1C69674D6D786256950…
Some of that article may come as a shock to hard-core SCSI fans ;-) I'm
running - 2.4.22 lowlat/preempt, uniprocessor AthlonXP 1700+, 512MB RAM,
60GB ATA 100 5400rpm Maxtor IDE disk drive (data drive only), AZZA KT3AV
KT133A Socket A motherboard, ST Audio (Hoontech) C-Port DSP2000 on IRQ
10 (not shared, IRQ 9 is unused), reiserfs. I hardly ever get any xruns
on this system so I'm pretty amazed that you're getting them. What does
your interrupt setup look like? I don't remember if we'd already
covered the interrupts before. Do lspci -vvv and make sure that you're
using IRQ 9 or 10 (or possibly 11) and it's not shared.
Jan