From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 11:50:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6954837B405 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 11:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6MIkuO04107; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:47:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B5B206B.71CB8759@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:50:19 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sperber Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQs/sec References: <20010722203218.U10666-100000@www.omega-project.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sperber wrote: > > Hi! > > Is it normal that there are around 220 IRQs/sec active? > I have a AMD Thunderbird 1.2 Ghz if that matters... That's what I normally see. I believe the clk & rtc are clock and real- time-clock. Both of which have to continiously run in order to keep proper time. I could be wrong, however. That's a question for someone more guru than I. -Bill -- It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message