On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:58 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy@gmail.com> wrote:
The bios doesn't give me any options to change it., lspci gave me *:
JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller, * * Kernel driver in
use: ohci1394 Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394
Is there a way to adjust irq settings to something that would work better?
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:36 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Mike, this is the output from cat/proc/interrupts, thanks for the help
>>
>> * * * * * *CPU0 * * * CPU1 * * * CPU2 * * * CPU3
>> * 0: * * * *128 * * * * *9 * * * * *3 * * * * *1 * IO-APIC-edge * * *timer
>> * 1: * * * * *0 * * * * *1 * * * * *1 * * * * *0 * IO-APIC-edge * * *i8042
>> * 8: * * * * *1 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * IO-APIC-edge * * *rtc0
>> * 9: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * IO-APIC-fasteoi * acpi
>> *12: * * * * *1 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *3 * IO-APIC-edge * * *i8042
>> *16: * * * * 14 * * * * *4 * *34994 10236 * IO-APIC-fasteoi
>> uhci_hcd:usb3, nvidia
>> *17: * * * * *3 * * * * *7 * * * * *5 * * *229 * IO-APIC-fasteoi * eth1
>> *18: * *2264329 * *1667668 58 * * *58 * IO-APIC-fasteoi
>> ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394
>> *19: *1082 * *1087 866209 * * 182664 * IO-APIC-fasteoi * ata_piix,
>> ata_piix
>> *20: * * * * *0 * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * * *0 * IO-APIC-fasteoi
>> uhci_hcd:usb7
>> *21: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * IO-APIC-fasteoi
>> uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5
>> *22: * * * * 78 * * * * 75 * * * * 67 * * *69 * IO-APIC-fasteoi * HDA
>> Intel
>> *23: * * * * 40 * * * * 41 *109995 86864 * IO-APIC-fasteoi
>> ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb6
>> *28: * * * * 16 * * 306117 * * * *11 * * 16 * PCI-MSI-edge * * *eth0
>> *NMI: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * 0 * * * * *0 * Non-maskable interrupts
>> *LOC: * *4235366 *4175547 4002622 * *3956454 * Local timer interrupts
>> *SPU: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * *0 * Spurious interrupts
>> *CNT: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * 0 * Performance counter
>> interrupts
>> *PND: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * *0 * Performance pending work
>> *RES: 2754223 *417620 396099 587164 *Rescheduling interrupts
>> *CAL: *5387 * 4362 * * 3863 * * * 2625 * Function call interrupts
>> *TLB: * * * 5392 * * * 5471 *4287 5591 * TLB shootdowns
>> *TRM: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * *0 * Thermal event interrupts
>> *THR: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * *0 * Threshold APIC
>> interrupts
>> *MCE: * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * * * * *0 * Machine check
>> exceptions
>> *MCP: * * * * 13 * * * * 13 * * * * 13 * * * * 13 * Machine check polls
>> *ERR: * * * * *0
>> *MIS: * * * * *0
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:06 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> I was wondering if anyone knew what the most stable setup (Ubuntu
>> >> Studio version, Jack'd version, Ardour version) would be for using
>> >> primarily Ardour.
>> >> I have been recording large sessions (30-40 tracks) for about 3 months
>> >> with Studio 10.04 and the 2.6.31-9 rt kernel and have been having
>> >> issue's with ardour and jackd crashing what seems like randomly. I
>> >> haven't been able to reproduce it. It doesn't matter if it is a giant
>> >> session or a small session I will get a segmentation fault anywhere
>> >> between 10 minutes to 4 hours. Sometimes several in a row and
>> >> sometimes not at all for an entire 5 hour recording session. I am
>> >> using 2 mackie onyx 1640's via onboard firewire on a Dell studio
>> >> (desktop) with a 2.33 Ghz quad core and 6 gig's of DDR2. Also an
>> >> Nvidia 9800 GTX. I'm just not sure where to go to fix my stability
>> >> problems. I don't know if it is my firewire chipset or the drivers I'm
>> >> using. I read somewhere that using nvidia drivers could cause the
>> >> problems. Maybe my harddrives are to slow? I am willing to go to a
>> >> barebones install if need be. I don't need the install to do anything
>> >> but record in ardour and master in jammin. It just looks really bad
>> >> when I am recording a band and I have to tell them to hold on while I
>> >> restart ardour or the computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>> >> Thank you!
>> >> Tommy
>> >>
>> > check your firewire chipset, and also run in a terminal
>> > cat /proc/interrupts
>> > and see what devices are sharing IRQ settings...
>> > i have ubuntu 10.04 and i have started using the KXstudio ppa's with
>> > it...
>> > however, even before that, with your same sofware setup, and a P4 with a
>> > gig
>> > of ram, i had a very stable firewire rig using a texas instruments
>> > chipset,
>> > and a presonus firepod... i have a faster machine now, but still, its
>> > running 10.04 and with any kernel, its stable... check on those couple
>> > things, and lets go from there
>> >>
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>
> you see the line ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394, thats not ideal..
> that means that your firewire device is shared with 2 other USB ports... you
> should look in the bios and see if you can change that, and also, run lspci
> and see what firewire chipset you have...
if i were you, i would probably just get a nice TI chipset in a pci or express card and solve the IRQ port issue and the chipset all in one go...*
>>
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