[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

Thu Aug 5 16:17:49 UTC 2010
Frank Thommen <frank.thommen at embl-heidelberg.de>

James Pearson wrote:
> Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ?
>> sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post:
>>
>> [root at shelley ~]# lspci
>> ...
>> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio 
>> (rev a2)
>>
>> [root at shelley ~]# lsmod
>> ...
>> snd_hda_intel         639265  0
> 
> Could this be related to BZ #586532 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586532>
> 
> ???


Yes it is.  Same symptoms and the fix proposed there resolved the 
problem:  Add the option "enable_msi=0" to the snd-hda-intel line in 
/etc/modprobe.conf:

   options snd-hda-intel [your other options] enable_msi=0

Thanks for the hint.

frank

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