I would check your /var/log/messages and make sure that your controller doesn't think something is wrong with one of the disks. It might be trying to rebuild the array on the fly. Louis > Hi, > > I recently installed Redhat 7.3 on a HighPoint 372 RAID-controller with > two disks in RAID-1 by using the Open Source drivers provided by > HighPoint. > The box boots, and everything is fine, except from two minor problems. > > 1. When the box is idle, the system load is _never_ below 1.00. I have > tried to update the kernel, flashed the RAID-controller to a newer > version, degraded the kernel, changed drivers - but nothing seems to help. > Even though the CPU states are: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, > 100.0% idle > > 2. The I/O performance is bad. I ran bonnie++, and got very poor results. > You can see them here: http://eivind.stabbursmoen.no/nathan.html > > Anyone out there running a similar configuration? Or at least any ideas > why the controller is messing with me? > > All suggestions are welcome :-) > > - Eivind Hestnes > > The dmesg and lsmod outputs are provided below: > > dmesg: > ------ > Linux version 2.4.23-grsec-1.9.13-xfs-1.31-hpt-1.31-bigmem-grath > (root@nathan) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)) #1 > Fri Dec 26 19:17:59 CET 2003 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS) > BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 127MB HIGHMEM available. > 896MB LOWMEM available. > found SMP MP-table at 000f57c0 > hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. > On node 0 totalpages: 262128 > zone(0): 4096 pages. > zone(1): 225280 pages. > zone(2): 32752 pages. > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 > Virtual Wire compatibility mode. > OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 > Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 17 > I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. > Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs > Processors: 1 > Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux-latest-hp ro root=801 > BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.23-grsec-1.9.13-xfs-1.31-hpt-1.31-bigmem-grath > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 1808.964 MHz processor. > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 3604.48 BogoMIPS > Memory: 1032780k/1048512k available (1795k kernel code, 15344k reserved, > 315k data, 108k init, 131008k highmem) > Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) > Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) > Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) > Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) > CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K > CPU: L2 cache: 512K > Intel machine check architecture supported. > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. > CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04 > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 > ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 > ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs > Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map > ....changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. > init IO_APIC IRQs > IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-9, 2-10, 2-11, 2-20, 2-21 not connected. > ...TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 > number of MP IRQ sources: 21. > number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. > testing the IO APIC....................... > > IO APIC #2...... > ..... register #00: 02000000 > ........ : physical APIC id: 02 > ........ : Delivery Type: 0 > ........ : LTS : 0 > ..... register #01: 00178020 > ........ : max redirection entries: 0017 > ........ : PRQ implemented: 1 > ........ : IO APIC version: 0020 > ..... register #02: 00000000 > ........ : arbitration: 00 > ..... register #03: 00000001 > ........ : Boot DT : 1 > ..... IRQ redirection table: > NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: > 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 > 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 > 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 > 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 > 05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 > 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 > 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 > 09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 > 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 > 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79 > 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81 > 10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 89 > 11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 91 > 12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99 > 13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1 > 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 > 16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9 > 17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1 > IRQ to pin mappings: > IRQ0 -> 0:2 > IRQ1 -> 0:1 > IRQ3 -> 0:3 > IRQ4 -> 0:4 > IRQ6 -> 0:6 > IRQ7 -> 0:7 > IRQ8 -> 0:8 > IRQ12 -> 0:12 > IRQ13 -> 0:13 > IRQ14 -> 0:14 > IRQ15 -> 0:15 > IRQ16 -> 0:16 > IRQ17 -> 0:17 > IRQ18 -> 0:18 > IRQ19 -> 0:19 > IRQ22 -> 0:22 > IRQ23 -> 0:23 > ..................................... done. > Using local APIC timer interrupts. > calibrating APIC timer ... > ...... CPU clock speed is 1808.9505 MHz. > ...... host bus clock speed is 100.4971 MHz. > cpu: 0, clocks: 1004971, slice: 502485 > CPU0<T0:1004960,T1:502464,D:11,S:502485,C:1004971> > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb200, last bus=2 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) > PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1 > Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge > PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0 > PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P0) -> 16 > PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17 > PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I3,P0) -> 23 > PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I4,P0) -> 22 > PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I6,P0) -> 18 > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Initializing RT netlink socket > Starting kswapd > allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces > Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). > SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.23-2003-12-01_00:33_UTC with no debug enabled > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ > SERIAL_PCI enabled > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize > loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M > agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 845G, but could not find the secondary > device. Assuming a non-integrated video card. > agpgart: Detected Intel(R) 845G chipset > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 > [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 > [drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xe0000000 64MB > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 1 > [drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xe0000000 64MB > [drm] Initialized i810 1.2.1 20020211 on minor 2 > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > idebus=xx > Initializing Cryptographic API > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP > IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team > ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx>. > http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/ > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 271k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > Device Driver for HPT37x2 ATA RAID Controller > Version 1.31, Compiled Dec 26 2003 19:36:59 > Found Controller: HPT372 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller > scsi0 : hpt37x2 > Vendor: HPT Inc. Model: HPT37x2 RAID 1 Rev: 1.05 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > SCSI device sda: 60058656 512-byte hdwr sectors (30750 MB) > Partition check: > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > > Journalled Block Device driver loaded > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed > grsec: time set by (hwclock:25465) UID(0) EUID(0), parent > (rc.sysinit:30306) UID(0) EUID(0) > Adding Swap: 2096440k swap-space (priority -1) > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,6), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,7), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt > 02:03.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x9400. Vers LK1.1.18-ac > 00:50:da:3f:d5:89, IRQ 23 > product code 5957 rev 00.13 date 10-27-99 > Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa. > 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. > MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d. > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. > 02:03.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled > See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt > 02:04.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x9800. Vers LK1.1.18-ac > 00:50:da:3f:d7:9f, IRQ 22 > product code 5957 rev 00.13 date 10-27-99 > Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa. > 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. > MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7809. > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. > 02:04.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled > > lsmod: > ------ > Module Size Used by Not tainted > 3c59x 27816 1 > ext3 65152 5 > jbd 46956 5 [ext3] > hpt37x2 61888 6 > sd_mod 11932 12 > scsi_mod 99992 2 [hpt37x2 sd_mod] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
