Hi Laszlo, if you are running any RTAI but the latest vulcano CVS, there is an issue with memory > 1 GB. I bet that is the problem you are seeing. Try booting the machine with mem=900M, or try to upgrade RTAI to vulcano CVS (or 3.6.1 next week? when it will be released).
Regards, Alex On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 18:30 +0200, Snieder wrote: > Hi All, > > Alex, > >can you give a bit more info about your setup? > >put the kernel config on pastebin.ca > >can you do the same for lspci -vv, uname -a, cat /proc/cpuinfo, cat > >/proc/meminfo > > You can find the info You've requested on this link: > http://www.pastebin.ca/1016969 > > Jeff, > >Does the problem exist after running the rtai testsuite (e.g., > >test/kern/latency)? > > > >Does the problem exist when using a stock configuration that does not > >communicate with hardware (e.g., sim/tkemc.ini)? > > > >Have you made any modifications to the emc 2.2.5 source code, or did > >you compile it unchanged? > > > >Do you have more than 1GB of RAM? > > Yes, the problem exists when I run the testsuite/latency. On a sidenote, the > latency test runs ok, but the first two columns only contains only zeroes > and there is an overflow in the last one. I didn't pay much attention to > this, as I hope, the problem is not related to this. > > No, I didn't modify the emc source code and I have 2 GB of ram. This morning > I modified the emc script a bit, by commenting out the Cleanup line. This > way Linux stays runing. After closing and rerunning emc it asks if I wanted > to restart emc. Answering with Yes, it runs without any problems. > > Stuart, > > On my box I saw xorg was using 98% of the CPU. I increased video > >memory to 128 mb and the usage went down to 70%. I increased the video..... > > While the cnc is working and I'm using xp with vmware, runing solidedge, the > cpu load does not exceed 60%:::) > > Laszlo > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
