Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:33:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locating a possible interrupt storm Message-ID: <20040217193251.L33568@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040211050530.GU20549@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20040211050530.GU20549@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > My working hypothesis is that an interrupt storm is preventing the > system from doing anything other than acknowledge interrupts. Does > this sound reasonable? If not, can anyone suggest any alternate > hypotheses? Sounds about right. Monitor vmstat -i or 'show intr' from ddb; if any of the numbers seems really high, there's your culprit. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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