[Bug 297121] Re: irqbalance causes ksoftirqd to use 100% CPU

2008-11-12 Thread joosters
I've got a couple potentially more useful traces. The first is a strace of irqbalance-0.12, starting from a fresh reboot with the irqbalance init script disabled (so the trace shows the first time that irqbalance started messing with the IRQs). The trace continues while the benchmark is run. I

[Bug 297121] Re: irqbalance causes ksoftirqd to use 100% CPU

2008-11-12 Thread joosters
** Attachment added: strace of irqbalance-0.55 from startup http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19589900/irqbalance-0.55.trace -- irqbalance causes ksoftirqd to use 100% CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297121 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 297121] Re: irqbalance causes ksoftirqd to use 100% CPU

2008-11-12 Thread joosters
I've attached a trace of irqbalance while my benchmark test is underway. Also, I should a detail to the original bug: Killing irqbalance only works if you kill it before the benchmark has ever run. If you kill it later on (e.g. before running another benchmark run) then the damage is done and you

[Bug 297121] [NEW] irqbalance causes ksoftirqd to use 100% CPU

2008-11-12 Thread joosters
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: irqbalance irqbalance-0.55-2 seems to misconfigure my Linux box. I have a Sun 4100M2 (2xdual core AMD Opteron 2216) running Ubuntu Hardy (64 bit). I have been benchmarking software that performs lots of network I/O, using 8 network cards on the box

[Bug 230749] [NEW] gnome-screensaver uses too much CPU

2008-05-15 Thread joosters
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver gnome-screensaver on my machine is configured to just blank the screen after 10 minutes. No animations, no pretty pictures, nothing. Yet, over an uptime of 20 days, the gnome-screensaver process shows 225 minutes of CPU time. For

[Bug 119730] Re: Slow SATA performance

2008-03-27 Thread joosters
I hit (what I think was) this problem with a fresh install of Hardy AMD64. My SATA controller is: 00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1714 I found that only my *second*