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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:59:21 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: generating synthetic interrupt load
Message-ID:  <20041213165921.GC57328@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <41BDC9A2.2080700@nbritton.org>
References:  <41BDC9A2.2080700@nbritton.org>

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In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said:
> How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie 
> and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because 
> when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load.

Try something that generates network traffic (ping -f for example). 
Disk interfaces don't generate very many interrupts/sec.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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