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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:55:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        dan@wolf.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help understanding output from systat
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904141354260.15989-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990413093523.A24567@ns.wolf.com>

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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 dan@wolf.com wrote:

> Greetings, all.  I'm hoping someone can help me
> make sense of the output from "systat -v" on my 
> machine.  I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.8 on a Celeron
> 333A (with L2 cache), 256 MB RAM, 8 GB IDE drive
> (soon to be replaced with Ultra-SCSI), and a 4
> GB Ultra-SCSI drive on an Adaptec 2940UW.
> 
> I started examing systat to try and dtermine why 
> my overall throughput is so low - I'm currently 
> maxing out at around 2 Mbits on a 10 Mbit circuit.

Ethernet?

> Running "systat -v" shows my CPU usage to be sitting
> right around 13% Sys, 32% Intr, 9% User.  That Intr
> percentage seems might god-awful high.  Am I correct
> in assuming that something is badly amiss here?

Your interrupt load is kinda high.  How many interrupts/sec are you
getting on your Ethernet card at full output?

If your Ether card is ISA, that says it all right there.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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