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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:05:55 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        Vye Wilson <vyeperman@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 53.8% interrupt, 46.2% idle - Unusual interrupt use?
Message-ID:  <20060706140527.H92823@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200607060208.26315.max@love2party.net>
References:  <6c3c36d00607051702l178c1cb1he58749c03725c1ac@mail.gmail.com> <200607060208.26315.max@love2party.net>

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On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Max Laier wrote:

> On Thursday 06 July 2006 02:02, Vye Wilson wrote:
>> I'm really not sure how to go about troubleshooting this issue. Can someone 
>> point me in the right direction?
>
> "vmstat -i" should give a good idea what is causing the interrupt load.

I also highly recommend "top -S", which causes top to show system threads, 
such as interrupt threads and network threads, as a way to look at CPU use.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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