IRQ storm

[Vlad GURDIGA]

After running this:

/sbin/atacontrol reinit ata2

the storm was gone.
My HDD in on ata4:

#atacontrol info ata4
Master:  ad8 <ST3160812AS/3.AAD> Serial ATA II
Slave:       no device present


Why?



On 25/03/07, Vlad GURDIGA <gurdiga at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/03/07, Josh Carroll <josh.carroll at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've changed motherboard recently (now it is Intel DP965LT) and now I
> > > have my PC slowed down considerably. vmstat -i shows a huge amount of
> > > interrupts on irq17: atapci0:
> >
> > Do you have atapicam enabled or being loaded as a module?
>
> No, I do not have atapicam enabled. Here is my kldstat output:
>
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
> 1   14 0xc0400000 3703a4   kernel
> 2    1 0xc0771000 6ea8     linprocfs.ko
> 3    2 0xc0778000 1adb8    linux.ko
> 4    1 0xc0793000 2364     accf_http.ko
> 5    1 0xc0796000 aa74     cpufreq.ko
> 6    1 0xc07a1000 59a50    acpi.ko
> 7    1 0xc4a7a000 3000     pflog.ko
> 8    1 0xc4a7d000 2d000    pf.ko
>
> I've checked my kernel configuration file and I do not have it there
> either.
>
> What else should I check?
>
> > If so, I
> > have the same problem, which is currently being tracked in this PR:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103602
> >
> > A workaround, if you don't need/want to burn cds/dvds is to remove
> > atapicam or don't load the module at boot time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Josh
> >
>