Re: dealing with interupt storms .....

From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj_at_jennejohn.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:46:10 +0100
"Wilkinson, Alex" writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> How does one stop an interrupt storm in RELENG_5 ?
> 
> >From top(1)
> 
> CPU states: 10.9% user,  0.0% nice,  3.9% system, 85.3% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> 
> >From vmstat(1)
> 
>                                  total          rate
>                                  -----          ----
> irq18: uhci2 bt0++               9187313        426
> 
> 

426 interrupts/sec isn't exactly a storm. I have 999/sec on my clock
alone and see very low interrupt values in top. Is your top in step
with your kernel?

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.de
Received on Fri Nov 12 2004 - 08:46:13 UTC

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