Re: diagnosing interrupt storms?

From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:19:38 -0800
* Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> [040309 09:57] wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > At a certain point after booting my SMP 5-current box gets all
> > weird, typically I see 50%+ time spent in interrupt.  If I run "top
> > -S" I typically see one of the ithreads using 50% cpu.
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out what it's doing, what has gone wrong etc.
> >
> > Are there any sysctls to look at or things I can do to diagnose
> > this?
> 
> vmstat -i is useful for figuring out exactly which interrupt is storming,
> although the ithread might hint it too.
> 
> Which one is it?

It's typically been em (intel gigE) or the sound interrupt.

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