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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 07:35:55 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: imp@village.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com
Subject: Re: interrupts and such
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
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>Noticed today on news.sol.net:

>hummin# vmstat -i
>interrupt      total      rate
>clk0 irq0    16981562      261
>rtc0 irq8     8308881      128
>fdc0 irq6           1        0
>sc0 irq1         1831        0
>ed0 irq10     9768007      150
>Total        35060282      540

>What the heck, with clk0?

The counter for clk0 interrupts is used to count all clock and pci
interrupts in non-current versions of FreeBSD.  You should upgrade
that crufty ethernet card :-).

Bruce