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Subject: Is this a high interrupt rate for nics?
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Freebsd-5.3 SMP Kernel. Polling enabled.

bash-2.05b$ vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                          20          0
irq5: ep0                        2937064          1
irq6: fdc0                            10          0
irq8: rtc                      231396610        128
irq14: ata0                      1218635          0
irq15: ata1                       173656          0
irq11: ed0                     298318862        165
irq10: de0                     276544892        152
irq0: clk                     1807792593       1000
Total                         2618382342       1448

Are those normal for ed0 and de0?  Compared to the ep0 nic of rate of 1 
(although the ep0 nic is not used as much as the other two nics obviously).

Thanks.

Mark