From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 14:55:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59FC16A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail10.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768AD43F75 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 21170 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2003 21:55:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Oct 2003 21:55:36 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h96LtXce003286; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:55:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031006171159.0241d600@pop.hotpop.com> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:55:40 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Allen Landsidel X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: systat, vmstat, and interrupts X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:55:38 -0000 On 06-Oct-2003 Allen Landsidel wrote: > I'm on list, save to forget the cc.. > > At 04:13 PM 10/6/2003, John Baldwin wrote: >> > Not as complicated a question as one might think, but I still haven't >> found >> > a way.. so, is there some way I can get tools like systat (systat -vmstat >> > 1) or vmstat (vmstat -i) that show irq rates to display the "proper" IRQs >> > on SMP boxes? >> >>Nope, not right now. 5.2 probably will show you better output though. >>-stable's output isn't going to change. > > Ok, forgetting the two examples right now, is there any way via some other > utility to check these values? Not really other than trying to correlate with dmesg output. :-/ > I'm eagerly anticipating moving the SMP machines to 5.x, but I (like many > people) am in a heavy-usage production environment; can't afford to try > updating any of them until we move to -STABLE.. hopefully the website is > still up to date and the RELENG_5 branch will be following not too long > after, but for now that isn't an option. Definitely understood. I still run 4.x on all my important machines still. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/