I'm running 5.4-RELEASE-p6 on a Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop. My network
card is a Cisco 350 PCMCIA card. I'm experiencing a very high rate of
interrupts during heavy network traffic. The laptop becomes very
sluggish to respond. The more traffic through the interface, the higher
the number of interrupts and the more sluggish the laptop becomes. I've
searched the mailing list archives and the web, but haven't been able to
find anything relevant. This Cisco card works fine in every other
laptop I have. I suspect it might be a cardbus problem, but I don't
know how to resolve it or troubleshoot it any further. I've tried
disabling ACPI and that hasn't helped. Has anyone experienced this or
have any suggestions? Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is the output from a "vmstat -i", a "systat -iostat",
and my boot
time dmesg. There are no other errors showing up in any of the logs or
on the console.
interrupt total rate
irq0: clk 3900551 99
irq1: atkbd0 46826 1
irq4: sio0 1 0
irq7: 3 0
stray irq7 3 0
irq8: rtc 4992799 127
irq9: acpi0 629 0
irq10: nvidia0 2517427 64
irq11: cbb0 cbb1+++ 6773905 173
irq12: psm0 240 0
irq13: npx0 1 0
irq14: ata0 319425 8
irq15: ata1 70 0
Total 18551880 475
/0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10
Load Average |||||||||||
/0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100
cpu user|XXXXX
nice|
system|X
interrupt|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
idle|XXX
/0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100
ad0 MB/s
tps|XX
cd0 MB/s
tps|
pass0 MB/s
tps|
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FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #26: Thu Jul 28 15:05:56 EDT 2005
root@pdq-laptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PDQ.M2
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193165 Hz quality 0
CPU: Mobile Genuine Intel(R) processor 1600MHz (598.49-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5
Features=0xa7e9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE>
real memory = 536608768 (511 MB)
avail memory = 511258624 (487 MB)
Pentium 4 TCC support enabled, current performance 100%
netsmb_dev: loaded
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <TOSHIB 750> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xd808-0xd80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff at device
0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M> mem
0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfd000000-0xfdffffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci1
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xefe0-0xefff irq
11 at device 29.0 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xef80-0xef9f irq
11 at device 29.1 on pci0
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xef60-0xef7f irq
11 at device 29.2 on pci0
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfcfffc00-0xfcffffff irq
11 at device 29.7 on pci0
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
fwohci0: <Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A> mem
0xfc5f8000-0xfc5fbfff,0xfc5ff800-0xfc5fffff irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci2
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:00:39:00:00:51:65:81
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.35> port
0xcdc0-0xcdff mem 0xfc5c0000-0xfc5dffff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci2
em0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:7b:0f:7a:01
em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A
cbb0: <ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 11.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
cbb1: <ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 11.1 on pci2
cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
pci2: <base peripheral> at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port
0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 11 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbdc0-0xbdff,0xbe00-0xbeff mem
0xfc4ffd00-0xfc4ffdff,0xfc4ffe00-0xfc4fffff irq 11 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981B AC97 Codec>
pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
acpi_toshiba0: <Toshiba HCI Extras> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xeffff,0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
ums0: Sun Microsystems Type 6 USB mouse, rev 1.10/1.05, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 3 buttons.
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 598494220 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 38154MB <TOSHIBA MK4026GAX/PA103H> [77520/16/63] at ata0-master
UDMA100
an0: <Cisco Systems 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter> at port 0xc000-0xc03f
irq 11 function 0 config 5 on pccard0
an0: got RSSI <-> dBM map
an0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
an0: Ethernet address: 00:07:0e:b9:2e:d5
ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
acd0: CDRW <UJDA750 DVD/CDRW/1.60> at ata1-master UDMA33
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <MATSHITA UJDA750 DVD/CDRW 1.60> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray
closed
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
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