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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:05:15 +1000
From:      Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au>
To:        borislav nikolov <vf1100c@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cpu timer issues
Message-ID:  <4CA2BAFB.60304@ish.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <FC918FA4-770F-4F93-B179-F76BFFBFBD50@gmail.com>
References:  <4CA19F27.6050903@ish.com.au> <FC918FA4-770F-4F93-B179-F76BFFBFBD50@gmail.com>

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Interesting, using systat everything looks fine. The interrupts hang 
around 2000.

Thanks

Jurgen

On 28/09/10 8:33 PM, borislav nikolov wrote:
> Hello,
> vmsat -i calculates interrupt rate based on interrupt count/uptime, and the interrupt count is 32 bit integer.
> With high values of kern.hz it will overflow in few days (with kern.hz=4000 it will happen every 12 days or so).
> If that is the case, use systat -vmstat 1 to get accurate interrupt rate.
> That is just fyi, because i was confused once and it scared me abit, and i started changing counters untill i noticed this.
>
> p.s. please forgive my poor english

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