Hi, The funny thing is.. the system does not report _any_ failures. I have turned on full logging, but not a single warning has been reported. There is no 'wild-processes' eating up the CPU either. But I recently did a dicovery. I made a clean install of RedHat 7.3 on a standalone IDE-disk attached to the onboard IDE-controller. Then I booted from this disk, and loaded the SCSI-modules, so I could mount the HighPoint drivers later. Everything went fine, until I loaded the hpt37x2 module (so I could find the HighPoint controller). Because after I loaded the driver, the load began to raise (as when I booted from the RAID). Afaik there must be something slightly wrong with the drivers shipped from HighPoint. No one out there with a HighPoint 370/372 controller on Linux Redhat 7.3? box :) - Eivind Louis E. Elrod sa: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
