I recently upgraded to 7-CURRENT on my VIA EPIA router, and have found that there's a constant interrupt load of around 15%. My dmesg reports the CPU as: CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+AES (533.36-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Features=0x381b93f<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 132055040 (125 MB) avail memory = 119701504 (114 MB) uname -a: FreeBSD router.draftnet 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Fri Aug 31 07:04:22 BST 2007 brucec_at_router.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTER i386 The first few lines of top -S are: last pid: 1394; load averages: 0.08, 0.12, 0.21 up 0+01:59:10 16:13:59 57 processes: 3 running, 39 sleeping, 15 waiting CPU states: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 4.8% system, 17.0% interrupt, 75.1% idle Mem: 7360K Active, 6116K Inact, 12M Wired, 48K Cache, 9504K Buf, 90M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K RUN 100:01 81.98% idle 12 root 1 -32 - 0K 8K WAIT 12:31 7.96% swi4: clock sio 1394 brucec 1 46 0 3512K 1744K RUN 0:01 4.98% top 586 root 1 44 0 5016K 2516K RUN 2:39 0.00% ppp 1044 root 1 44 0 3176K 980K select 0:51 0.00% powerd 28 root 1 -68 - 0K 8K WAIT 0:45 0.00% irq11: vr0 dc3 30 root 1 -68 - 0K 8K WAIT 0:32 0.00% irq12: dc1 While there's a high interrupt load, vmstat -i doesn't show anything wrong: interrupt total rate irq0: clk 718003 99 irq4: sio0 897 0 irq5: dc0 31 0 irq8: rtc 919064 127 irq10: dc2 uhci0+ 31 0 irq11: vr0 dc3 63548 8 irq12: dc1 62120 8 irq14: ata0 1555 0 irq15: ata1 581 0 Total 1765830 245 I had thought of using hwpmc to find out what was happening, but unfortunately VIA CPUs aren't supported yet. Is there another way I can find out what's going on? -- Bruce CranReceived on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 13:28:50 UTC
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