From: Matt M. <jv...@li...> - 2001-01-29 13:01:40
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Allen Barnett wrote: > You might check your syslog file (/var/log/messages?). I've noticed that > whenever I get unexpected and frequest disk accesses, it's usually > something logging messages repeatedly. (For example, whenever my laptop > gets an interrupt from its sound system, the USB system logs a message > (since they share an interrupt line). Makes for rather poor recording > performance :-) AHA! Ok, this seems to have located a potential culprit: Jan 28 12:32:44 ph4t-jr kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 340 Jan 28 12:32:44 ph4t-jr kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 500 Jan 28 12:33:04 ph4t-jr kernel: [drm:radeon_freelist_get] *ERROR* returning NULL! Jan 28 12:35:03 ph4t-jr last message repeated 28 times Jan 28 12:36:20 ph4t-jr last message repeated 28 times Jan 28 12:36:49 ph4t-jr last message repeated 27 times Jan 28 12:37:20 ph4t-jr kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 2044 Jan 28 12:37:20 ph4t-jr kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 164 My log is *full* of this kind of stuff during the time I was running Q3A. I'll run more tests tonight and do some reading in the USB documentation to see if there is a known problem and perhaps a fix. I can also try a PS2 mouse and keyboard when I get home this evening. Thanks, matt |