From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 22 13:49: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.gmx.net (mail2.gmx.net [194.221.183.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA077159B5 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 32212 invoked by uid 0); 22 Nov 1999 20:33:58 -0000 Received: from p3e9e797a.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.158.121.122) by mail2.gmx.net with SMTP; 22 Nov 1999 20:33:58 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22316 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:03:26 +0100 Message-ID: <19991122200325.F19750@speedy.gsinet> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:03:25 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to determine IRQ usage? Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.1.19991122080327.04d63510@granite.sentex.ca> <020b01bf34ee$aca1aa00$126b330a@CHIEF> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C020b01bf34ee$aca1aa00$126b330a=40CHIEF=3E=3B_from_S=F8?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?ren_Klintrup_on_Mon=2C_Nov_22=2C_1999_at_02:36:48PM_+0100?= Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 14:36 +0100, S=F8ren Klintrup wrote: > There seems to be a problem with the length of the vmstat -i output > on my machine ... >=20 > there ain't enough room for the entire output .. (of total) >=20 > interrupt total rate > clk0 irq0 1393425598 99 > rtc0 irq8 1783597416 127 > fdc0 irq6 1 0 > wdc0 irq14 240062348 17 > ep0 irq5 53763994 3 > Total -824117939 -59 You might not be interested in the absolute values of these counters but more in the differences (i.e. growing rates) between two invocations of the stat program. This seems to be just like the collisions and errors counter values in the ifconfig output. > Is this going to be fixed ? I guess there's no need to fix something, it's not broken. I feel you don't care about the number of irqs in the past six months (I couldn't think of an application's use for these numbers). I think you want to know how much moves your system makes upon certain actions lasting for some minutes or hours (when causing heavy load of work or something). And this is what the counters are able to cope with. virtually yours - Gerhard Sittig --=20 If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message