Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:09:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob Schulhof <rrs@there.net> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High interrupt rate Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10107231006040.11362-100000@spork.there.net> In-Reply-To: <20010723195655.A9663@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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Hello, Thanks for reply. I found that using the i8254 clock rather than the TSC clock seemed to solve the problem, but perhaps it's merely coincidence. --Rob On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:56:55 +0300 > From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> > To: rrs@schoolie.there.net > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: High interrupt rate > > Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 20:35:42, rrs (Rob Schulhof) wrote about "High interrupt rate": > > > I'm puzzled why my system is spending 1% of CPU on system interrupts when > > completely idle. I even with avery thing killed except kernel proceses top > > and vmstat show 0.8% is spent servicing interrupts. A 'vmstat -i' shows the > > only interrupts set are the CLK and RTC. Anybody come across this? I'm > > assuming it's a hardware problem. > > One my system constantly shows 12% interrupt time. LA does not reflect this. > Possibly state checking interferes with some external activity. > One should know that these times are very approximate. > > > /netch > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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