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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:45:00 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dani Popa <dani@vipnet.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 46.3% interrupt
Message-ID:  <20050222204500.GA57700@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050221194712.4d1674cc.dani@vipnet.ro>
References:  <20050221194712.4d1674cc.dani@vipnet.ro>

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On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:47:12PM +0200, Dani Popa wrote:

> but on top :
> CPU states: 25.3% user,  0.0% nice, 56.4% system, 46.3% interrupt,  0.0% =
idle
>=20
> my question is: why 46.3% interrupt , i don't see with vmstat -i any devi=
ce use interrupt so many=20

top is quite poor at measuring CPU usage, it often gives wildly
inaccurate readings.

Kris

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