Unable to kill Fossapup irq/122-aerdv process

[sohan]

I've got a frugal install of fossapup and as soon as the system starts up, upto 70% of the processor is used by other services named irq/122-aerdv, klogd and syslogd. I can shut down the klogd and syslogd processes with the killall command from the console but i cant seem to kill the irq process and i'm on an old system so i really need the processing power. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

[rockedge]

@sohan Looks like an known problem with Realtek WiFi using lots of CPU on older machines.
Some things to try are modifying in the boot stanza's the kernel command line in the grub.cfg (using grub2) or in the menu.lst (using Grub4Dos).

1) Adding pcie_aspm=off to kernel parameters
2) adding pci=noaer to kernel parameters.

Here is some info on it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1880653

Let us know if any of these help.

[bigpup]

Post the make and model of the computer?
Specs if you know them?

No one specific Puppy version is designed to work on every possible computer.
That is why there is always several Puppy versions to download and use.

There may be a better Puppy version to use on your computer.

[rockedge]

There may be a better Puppy version to use on your computer.

This is true. Although there is also the chance swapping the kernel will fix it. Hard to say as @bigpup says without the computer's specs.

It comes down to is what's the easiest for you to implement.

[sohan]

@rockedge i am having a bit of an issue in figuring out where my grub config file is as i have made a seperate 100mb boot partition for grub2. The config file there does not contain the line where we add kernel parameters hence adding GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pci=noaer" to the begginning of the config file did not work

I am much inclined to change the kernel too but as i lack the time i thought a quick fix would work fine.
The laptop i have is an HP Pavilion x360, specifications in the link below for @bigpup
https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04942986d

i would like to know where my grub config file is actually located at and what to enter there for the process to not take up so much processor power

Thank you for all you've done

[rockedge]

@sohan
In that 100 M partition should be the grub.cfg, open it with Geany or your preferred editor.

There should be a line in a menuentry block, something similar to the following:

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kernel /F96-CE_4/vmlinuz  psubdir=/F96-CE_4 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck net.ifnames=0

your line will look different BUT at the end of the kernel line place the arguments:

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kernel /F96-CE_4/vmlinuz   pcie_aspm=off pci=noaer

[bigpup]

How did you do the boot loader install?
Give details!

In fact how did you do the frugal install?

HP Pavilion x360, specifications in the link below

The link does not take me to any information. Only page that says no page available.
Looking up info for a HP Pavilion x360 shows a lot of different possible hardware setups.

If it does have anything close to what is shown in general for this model computer.

There have been many improvements to Puppy after the release of Fossapup64 9.5

I suggest you try using F96-CE which is an update of Fossapup64.
BookwormPup64 is very new Puppy version and has many improvements to Puppy.

[sohan]

after a lot of days i have found a solution to this problem albeit my computer does not idle while producing no heat. Thank you to you guys...