On Mon Oct 29, 2012, Luc Michel wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/10/28 Thomas Fjellstrom <[email protected]>: > > So I've reinstalled with 64bit debian. theres more irqs, but some of the > > ones you suggested earlier don't exist (some do). Setting the affinity > > didn't really help with performance. Now I also have both threads > > showing, but one seems to be constantly stuck at 100% cpu use, and > > things feel a bit slow. > > > > The stock debian 2.6.32 kernel seems to perform better. the debian 3.2 > > kernel from sid, and this custom 3.6.3 kernel I just compiled both show > > strangeness. > > > > I can't really explain it. > > Is your comBios up to date?
Yeah, thats the first thing I checked before doing the reinstall on the weekend. > If it can help,here is my 3.6.2 x86_64 kernel config that works well for > me. It's not highly optimized but does the job. > http://divers.grrrkesta.fr/net6501-config-3.6.2.gz I'll have to give that a try. I based my current one off of a nice fellow who sent me his. I just enabled a few extra iptables modules, and gzip compression. I don't know if it'll be useful, but here's my /proc/interupts as it currently is: root@firewall:~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 8577366 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 2: 0 0 XT-PIC-XT-PIC cascade 4: 316 0 IO-APIC-edge serial 16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi gpio_pch, ehci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb6, ohci_hcd:usb7, ohci_hcd:usb8 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi pch-dma 19: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi pch-dma, ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, ohci_hcd:usb5 44: 168431 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 45: 14054838 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-rx-0 46: 9213934 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-tx-0 47: 2 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 48: 86095 9315103 PCI-MSI-edge eth1-rx-0 49: 29026 12455531 PCI-MSI-edge eth1-tx-0 50: 2 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth1 54: 189364 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth3-rx-0 55: 228140 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth3-tx-0 56: 10 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth3 NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 59 8577359 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 0 IRQ work interrupts RTR: 0 0 APIC ICR read retries RES: 19124 21141 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 35507 42339 Function call interrupts TLB: 0 0 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 286 286 Machine check polls ERR: 0 MIS: 0 I think the strangest thing is that the performance of the local networking, as in when the box is transferring things itself, its pretty slow. Machines on the inside of the network however do just fine, even accessing external sites, I tend to get my full rated 50/3. Its just the soekris that doesn't. Things seem to work better with the stock debian 2.6.32 kernel. But I haven't throughly tested that. Some more possibly useless info: eth0 is the WAN connection eth1 is LAN eth3 is Wifi-LAN eth1 and eth3 are in a plain bridge config. I'm using shorewall to manage my firewall. It's storage is a 32G Sandisk P4 3 mSATA flash card. lshw stalls for a while when scanning pci over sysfs. The kernel shows some odd messages over dmesg about PCI devices. these ones are from an older kernel (not the one I'm currently running): [ 0.327863] pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 6: no parent found for of device [0x98000000-0x9801ffff] [ 0.377380] pci 0000:02:06.0: BAR 6: no parent found for of device [0x98000000-0x9801ffff] [ 1.741414] Couldn't register serial port 0000:02:0a.4: -28 [ 6.087764] sdhci-pci 0000:02:04.1: Invalid iomem size. You may experience problems. I'm assuming the sdhci bits are because it isn't hooked up at all. The reason it doesn't show up at all on my current kernel is I didn't include the driver in this config. pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff] pci 0000:02:00.0: no compatible bridge window for [mem 0x98000000-0x9801ffff pref] pci 0000:02:06.0: no compatible bridge window for [mem 0x98000000-0x9801ffff pref] vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes modprobe: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2 It seems the second and third items there are the sdhci device again, probably not useful information. > Regards, > > -- > Luc Michel > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Thomas Fjellstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
