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Date:      Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:09:42 +0200
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@mkbuelow.net>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>
Subject:   Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load 
Message-ID:  <200504040609.j3469g7b001419@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>  of "Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:43:57 PDT." <4250C60D.8040306@root.org> 

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Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:

>sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting.  If low, then 
>your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc.  If not, 
>perhaps you have an interrupt storm (vmstat -i)

Just for the record. I ran vmstat -i in a loop while untarring the
thunderbird source (causing degraded interactive responsiveness, as
reported in an earlier mail), and couldn't see any noticable increase in
interrupt rate.

mkb.



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