> and that happened under heavy memory/disk load from a Fourier Transform.
> It didn't crash the system, but produced considerable idle periods where
> the mouse and keyboard did not answer. Then big noisies from the SCSI disk
> where everything takes place, then idle, then...
These are more hardware based things to check
Whats the output of your /proc/pci /proc/dma /proc/ioports /proc/interupts
listing ??
Are any parts sharing IRQ's DMA's etc ???
Also the physical location of cards in pci slots can make a huge difference.
On a lot of M/boards PCI slots are paired together and share IRQ's
ie counting from the CPU socket on a generic M/board
PCI slot 1 shared with AGP
PCI slot 2
PCI slot 3 shared with slot 2
PCI slot 4
PCI slot 5 shared with slot 4
So if you have busmastering cards like don't like playing with other
busmastering cards.
You wouldn't in this case place them in say slot 4 & 5. Better to place them
in say 4 & 3.
As for your onboard IDE controller (if it is onboard) then check it isn't
clashing with any other installed devices.
Tony Platt
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