From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 23 10: 0:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.kiev.ua (segfault.kiev.ua [193.193.193.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EDA37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by segfault.kiev.ua (8) with UUCP id TWZ63523; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:59:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from netch@localhost) by iv.nn.kiev.ua (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6NGutv10268; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:56:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:56:55 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: rrs@schoolie.there.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High interrupt rate Message-ID: <20010723195655.A9663@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from rrs@there.net on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:35:42PM -0700 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 20:35:42, rrs (Rob Schulhof) wrote about "High interrupt rate": > I'm puzzled why my system is spending 1% of CPU on system interrupts when > completely idle. I even with avery thing killed except kernel proceses top > and vmstat show 0.8% is spent servicing interrupts. A 'vmstat -i' shows the > only interrupts set are the CLK and RTC. Anybody come across this? I'm > assuming it's a hardware problem. One my system constantly shows 12% interrupt time. LA does not reflect this. Possibly state checking interferes with some external activity. One should know that these times are very approximate. /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message