From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 11:11:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webs1.accretive-networks.net (webs1.accretive-networks.net [207.246.154.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53BB37B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost) by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9MIBba15721; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:11:37 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kirchner X-X-Sender: To: "Alex (DDS)" Cc: Subject: Re: CPU interrupted problem In-Reply-To: <3BD45DAD.4070600@dds.nl> Message-ID: <20011022111009.U85958-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Alex (DDS) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with the interrupt level of my cpu. Over 50% is at > normal operation used for interrupt. If i become root with the su > command then the 50% strangely disappears for a couple of minutes and > then it comes back again. Does any one recognize it? What can i do to > reduce the interrupt to a minimum? > > Tanks in advance, > Alex Interrupts come with heavy disk activity or network activity, typically. You can see if either is occuring by running "systat" in its "vmstat" mode. It'll show you something like: Interrupts 251 total ata0 irq14 23 xl0 irq15 fdc0 irq6 psm0 irq12 100 clk irq0 128 rtc irq8 on the far right. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message