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High level of interrupts on PC
Of late I have begun to notice a high level of interrupts on my PC.
Sometimes about 50% of CPU utilization goes on hardware interrupts when I check it with Process Explorer. I am currently trying to copy a 2Gb file and the time for copying keeps fluctuating between 80min and 30min and a 7200RPM SATA drive. What could be the most likely problem? |
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High level of interrupts on PC
"vfclists" wrote in message
... Of late I have begun to notice a high level of interrupts on my PC. Sometimes about 50% of CPU utilization goes on hardware interrupts when I check it with Process Explorer. I am currently trying to copy a 2Gb file and the time for copying keeps fluctuating between 80min and 30min and a 7200RPM SATA drive. What could be the most likely problem? I'm seeing the same thing with Vista 64 on my Dell Laptop. The CPU utilization creeps skyward over a week or 2, eventually loading both cores to 100%. As you have noticed, the odd thing is while the task mgr performance tab shows 100% on both cores, it also shows NO process consuming more than 0%. The only way to see the cause it is with Process Explorer, and as you said it's hardware interrupts sucking up all the time. I have tried disabling unneeded devices in the BIOS, but it still happens from time to time. The only "fix" is to reboot the laptop. But it always comes back eventually. Very irritating. Bruce. |
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High level of interrupts on PC
On Aug 9, 4:56*pm, "Bruce." wrote:
"vfclists" wrote in message ... Of late I have begun to notice a high level of interrupts on my PC. Sometimes about 50% of CPU utilization goes on hardware interrupts when I check it with Process Explorer. I am currently trying to copy a 2Gb file and the time for copying keeps fluctuating between 80min and 30min and a 7200RPM SATA drive. What could be the most likely problem? I'm seeing the same thing with Vista 64 on my Dell Laptop. *The CPU utilization creeps skyward over a week or 2, eventually loading both cores to 100%. *As you have noticed, the odd thing is while the task mgr performance tab shows 100% on both cores, it also shows NO process consuming more than 0%. *The only way to see the cause it is with Process Explorer, and as you said it's hardware interrupts sucking up all the time. I have tried disabling unneeded devices in the BIOS, but it still happens from time to time. *The only "fix" is to reboot the laptop. *But it always comes back eventually. *Very irritating. Bruce. Lets hope someone who sees this thread knows of a fix for it or can help use diagnose the problem Frank |
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High level of interrupts on PC
On 8/9/2010 09:19, vfclists wrote:
Of late I have begun to notice a high level of interrupts on my PC. Sometimes about 50% of CPU utilization goes on hardware interrupts when I check it with Process Explorer. I am currently trying to copy a 2Gb file and the time for copying keeps fluctuating between 80min and 30min and a 7200RPM SATA drive. What could be the most likely problem? Check that the drives' controllers haven't been switched to PIO mode. See: http://winhlp.com/node/10 |
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On Aug 9, 7:46*pm, Bill Blanton wrote:
On 8/9/2010 09:19, vfclists wrote: Of late I have begun to notice a high level of interrupts on my PC. Sometimes about 50% of CPU utilization goes on hardware interrupts when I check it with Process Explorer. I am currently trying to copy a 2Gb file and the time for copying keeps fluctuating between 80min and 30min and a 7200RPM SATA drive. What could be the most likely problem? Check that the drives' controllers haven't been switched to PIO mode. See:http://winhlp.com/node/10 I tried your suggestion and it is working perfectly. Mucho gracias Best regards Frank |
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On 8/9/2010 19:24, vfclists wrote:
On Aug 9, 7:46 pm, Bill wrote: On 8/9/2010 09:19, vfclists wrote: Of late I have begun to notice a high level of interrupts on my PC. Sometimes about 50% of CPU utilization goes on hardware interrupts when I check it with Process Explorer. I am currently trying to copy a 2Gb file and the time for copying keeps fluctuating between 80min and 30min and a 7200RPM SATA drive. What could be the most likely problem? Check that the drives' controllers haven't been switched to PIO mode. See:http://winhlp.com/node/10 I tried your suggestion and it is working perfectly. Mucho gracias De nada.. |
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High level of interrupts on PC
"Bill Blanton" wrote in message
m... Check that the drives' controllers haven't been switched to PIO mode. See: http://winhlp.com/node/10 Thanks but that didn't help. As bast I can tell, there are no Device Manager settings for the disk controller, and nothing lists a disk mode like PIO or DMA. Note that my laptop drive is SATA, so that option probably doesn't apply. The vbs script on that site reports no settable options. And my CPU leach persists even when no application is doing anything and the disk activity light is off. Bruce. |
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High level of interrupts on PC
On 8/10/2010 19:02, Bruce. wrote:
"Bill wrote in message m... Check that the drives' controllers haven't been switched to PIO mode. See: http://winhlp.com/node/10 Thanks but that didn't help. As bast I can tell, there are no Device Manager settings for the disk controller, and nothing lists a disk mode like PIO or DMA. Note that my laptop drive is SATA, so that option probably doesn't apply. I'm not sure whether SATA using native ACHI can fall back to PIO mode or not. I do know that it can happen if the controller is set to use legacy mode. The vbs script on that site reports no settable options. That error message just means that your controllers aren't using Window's drivers but instead are probably using the chipset manufacturer's drivers. Not necessarily that you are, or are not, in PIO mode. And my CPU leach persists even when no application is doing anything and the disk activity light is off. It could be any number of other hardware or software devices. |
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High level of interrupts on PC
Bruce. wrote:
"Bill Blanton" wrote in message m... Check that the drives' controllers haven't been switched to PIO mode. See: http://winhlp.com/node/10 Thanks but that didn't help. As bast I can tell, there are no Device Manager settings for the disk controller, and nothing lists a disk mode like PIO or DMA. Note that my laptop drive is SATA, so that option probably doesn't apply. The vbs script on that site reports no settable options. And my CPU leach persists even when no application is doing anything and the disk activity light is off. Bruce. In the Device Manager, click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, and then right-click on IDE Channel (or Primary IDE Channel or the like), and then click on Properties, and then click on Advanced Settings; that will show you the PIO/DMA info. -- Cheers, Bob |
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High level of interrupts on PC
"Bob Willard" wrote in message
... In the Device Manager, click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, and then right-click on IDE Channel (or Primary IDE Channel or the like), and then click on Properties, and then click on Advanced Settings; that will show you the PIO/DMA info. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist on my Dell laptop's Device Manager. What I do have is: Storage Controllers Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E SATA RAID Controller Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Those don't have any PIO/DMA settings I can find. Bruce. |
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High level of interrupts on PC
Bruce. wrote:
"Bob Willard" wrote in message ... In the Device Manager, click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, and then right-click on IDE Channel (or Primary IDE Channel or the like), and then click on Properties, and then click on Advanced Settings; that will show you the PIO/DMA info. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist on my Dell laptop's Device Manager. What I do have is: Storage Controllers Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E SATA RAID Controller Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Those don't have any PIO/DMA settings I can find. Bruce. "Microsoft iSCSI Initiator" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en "enables connection of a Windows host to an external iSCSI storage array using Ethernet NICs" In terms of tracing down interrupts, the following seems a round-about way to do it. I'd hoped there would be a Performance plugin counter feature, so you could simply display how many interrupts occurred on a particular IRQ, but I don't see a feature like that. http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussi...7/3031251.aspx The idea is, the driver handling the interrupts, shows up as a significant time sink. Kernrate is used to do the profiling. I just tested kernrate in a virtual machine. First, download this. It turns out, when I checked my cache of downloads, I already had a copy of it. That saved some time. "Windows Driver Kit Version 7.1.0" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...6-7633f2ec14ff GRMWDK_EN_7600_1.ISO 649,877,504 bytes Their intention, is for you to burn a CD with that. A program like Nero or Imgburn can convert an ISO9660, into a CD for you. Using IMAPI and just copying that file to a CD, is not quite the same thing. The ISO9660 is a file system, and when copied properly, there'll be a whole bunch of files on that CD. Imgburn is for people who want a free tool to make an ISO9660 CD. In VirtualPC 2007, I don't need to burn a CD. I can simply mount the ISO9660 and it shows up as a CD drive D:. When I do that, there is an autorun on the CD. Or, if for some reason that didn't work, you'd double click "KitSetup.exe". In the dialog that eventually shows up, if you wait long enough, you'll see that the installer has subsections. The subsections are crude and still dump way more stuff on the C: drive than is absolutely necessary. Full Development Environment Build Environments Samples Tools ---- KernRate is in here Help Debugging Tools for Windows --- (WinDbg and symchk are in here) Device Simulation Framework Windows Device Testing Framework If you select the Tools option, they end up in: C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\Tools\Other\i386 KernRate.exe 211KB ( WinDbg ends up in a separate place, in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86) I haven't figured out what to do with it yet, so won't say any more about it :-) ) To match what is in that blog article, it looks like I need to open a command prompt, navigate to the C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\Tools\Other\i386 folder, and then run "kernrate" as a command. It'll say to press control-C when you're satisfied enough seconds of real time samples have been collected. The bare trace, may show you the high runner driver, without any further work. The high runner driver, is likely to be involved with the high interrupt rate. Now, I'm on a 32 bit OS, which is why I'm using the i386 version of tools. There are also directories with ia64 (Itanium) and amd64 as names. Since you're on Vista 64, you might want to look in amd64, instead of i386. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium (where IA64 comes from) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 (where AMD64 comes from) If you see a high runner, and don't know what it is, post back the driver name. In the Russinovich blog, his high runner was b57nd60x. The one above that, ntkrnlpa, is an OS component (kernel). Paul |
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