isync
June 30th, 2010, 01:36 PM
I've got issues with my hardware graphics acceleration, I think.
Whenever the screensaver (!) starts, CPU utilisation shoots up to 80%.
This behaviour might as well be the cause for my poor Flash experience, on ads (and less severe on video playback) Flash draws heavily on the system, sometimes two Flash banners on one page nearly freeze the system.
I use the proprietary nVidia graphics driver.
System is a Asus Pundit1 AH1 with AMD Athlon CPU and 1GB RAM
lshw:
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory:0
description: System memory
physical id: 1
size: 1015MiB
*-cpu
product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 6
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.15.2
size: 2GHz
capacity: 2GHz
width: 64 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm cpufreq
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 0
size: 128KiB
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 1
size: 512KiB
*-memory:1 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:2 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 0
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:3 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 1
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.2
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:4 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 5
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:5 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 4
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.4
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.4
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:6 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.5
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:7 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 3
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.6
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:8 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 2
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.7
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: C51 PCI Express Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fd700000-fd7fffff ioport:fde00000(size=1048576)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: C51 PCI Express Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:25 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fdd00000-fddfffff ioport:fdc00000(size=1048576)
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: C51 PCI Express Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:26 ioport:b000(size=4096) memory:fd900000-fd9fffff ioport:fd800000(size=1048576)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: C51PV [GeForce 6150]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff(prefetchable) memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:40000000-4001ffff(prefetchable)
*-memory:9 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: MCP51 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: MCP51 LPC Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: MCP51 SMBus
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: driver=nForce2_smbus latency=0
resources: irq:255 ioport:4c00(size=64) ioport:4c40(size=64)
*-memory:10 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: MCP51 Memory Controller 0
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.2
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: MCP51 USB Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:21 memory:fe02f000-fe02ffff
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: MCP51 USB Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: b.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:22 memory:fe02e000-fe02e0ff
*-ide:0
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 IDE
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: d
bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:fd00(size=16)
*-ide:1
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: e
bus info: pci@0000:00:0e.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:23 ioport:9f0(size=8) ioport:bf0(size=4) ioport:970(size=8) ioport:b70(size=4) ioport:f800(size=16) memory:fe02d000-fe02dfff
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: MCP51 PCI Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 10
bus info: pci@0000:00:10.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:fdb00000-fdbfffff memory:fda00000-fdafffff(prefetchable)
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:04:03.0
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=32 maxlatency=32
resources: irq:19 memory:fdbff000-fdbff7ff ioport:cf00(size=128)
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: MCP51 High Definition Audio
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 10.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:10.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2
resources: irq:23 memory:fe028000-fe02bfff
*-bridge
description: Ethernet interface
product: MCP51 Ethernet Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
logical name: eth0
version: a1
serial: 00:17:31:14:39:17
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bridge bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 ip=****** latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes
resources: irq:20 memory:fe02c000-fe02cfff ioport:f700(size=8)
*-pci:4
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:5
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 101
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:6
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 102
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:7
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 103
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=k8temp
resources: irq:0
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
Whenever the screensaver (!) starts, CPU utilisation shoots up to 80%.
This behaviour might as well be the cause for my poor Flash experience, on ads (and less severe on video playback) Flash draws heavily on the system, sometimes two Flash banners on one page nearly freeze the system.
I use the proprietary nVidia graphics driver.
System is a Asus Pundit1 AH1 with AMD Athlon CPU and 1GB RAM
lshw:
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory:0
description: System memory
physical id: 1
size: 1015MiB
*-cpu
product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 6
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.15.2
size: 2GHz
capacity: 2GHz
width: 64 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm cpufreq
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 0
size: 128KiB
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 1
size: 512KiB
*-memory:1 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:2 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 0
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:3 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 1
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.2
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:4 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 5
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:5 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 4
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.4
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.4
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:6 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.5
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:7 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 3
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.6
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:8 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: C51 Memory Controller 2
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.7
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: C51 PCI Express Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fd700000-fd7fffff ioport:fde00000(size=1048576)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: C51 PCI Express Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:25 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fdd00000-fddfffff ioport:fdc00000(size=1048576)
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: C51 PCI Express Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:26 ioport:b000(size=4096) memory:fd900000-fd9fffff ioport:fd800000(size=1048576)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: C51PV [GeForce 6150]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff(prefetchable) memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:40000000-4001ffff(prefetchable)
*-memory:9 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: MCP51 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: MCP51 LPC Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: MCP51 SMBus
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: driver=nForce2_smbus latency=0
resources: irq:255 ioport:4c00(size=64) ioport:4c40(size=64)
*-memory:10 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: MCP51 Memory Controller 0
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.2
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: MCP51 USB Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:21 memory:fe02f000-fe02ffff
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: MCP51 USB Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: b.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:22 memory:fe02e000-fe02e0ff
*-ide:0
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 IDE
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: d
bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:fd00(size=16)
*-ide:1
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: e
bus info: pci@0000:00:0e.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:23 ioport:9f0(size=8) ioport:bf0(size=4) ioport:970(size=8) ioport:b70(size=4) ioport:f800(size=16) memory:fe02d000-fe02dfff
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: MCP51 PCI Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 10
bus info: pci@0000:00:10.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:fdb00000-fdbfffff memory:fda00000-fdafffff(prefetchable)
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:04:03.0
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=32 maxlatency=32
resources: irq:19 memory:fdbff000-fdbff7ff ioport:cf00(size=128)
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: MCP51 High Definition Audio
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 10.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:10.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2
resources: irq:23 memory:fe028000-fe02bfff
*-bridge
description: Ethernet interface
product: MCP51 Ethernet Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
logical name: eth0
version: a1
serial: 00:17:31:14:39:17
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bridge bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 ip=****** latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes
resources: irq:20 memory:fe02c000-fe02cfff ioport:f700(size=8)
*-pci:4
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:5
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 101
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:6
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 102
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:7
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 103
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=k8temp
resources: irq:0
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage