From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 3 09:52:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF7216A407 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:52:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (smtprelay05.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC5743ECF for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:51:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 4575 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2006 09:51:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (775067@[217.50.146.49]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Jul 2006 09:51:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:51:39 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: nocturnal Message-ID: <20060703115139.4a78514c@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44A8D770.5060808@swehack.se> References: <44A8D770.5060808@swehack.se> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.3 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc User-Agent: 321 test Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_T1sTrRDCOHTokKW9c=i8O7r"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt using all the CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:52:20 -0000 --Sig_T1sTrRDCOHTokKW9c=i8O7r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable nocturnal wrote: > I'm having a few problems with a webserver. Today the idle was at 0.0=20 > and it's still like this. It doesn't look like it's affecting web=20 > services but it looks weird and i'm afraid that the CPU is working > it's ass off with something. Of course nothing shows up in top or ps > that could indicate which process is taking up all this cpu and since=20 > interrupt is the one using it i'm not even sure anything is actually=20 > using up CPU since i don't know what interrupt is. Any hints or > pointers would be appreciated. >=20 > It looks like interrupt and system are fighting for percents, > interrupt has 100% constantly and as soon as interrupt drops system > takes exactly what's left over and sometimes system doesn't do it so > idle gets a few percents. It's weird to me simply because i can't > find a description of what interrupt shows in top anywhere in the > manuals. Did you already try "top -S"? Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_T1sTrRDCOHTokKW9c=i8O7r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEqOiyjV8GA4rMKUQRAnS7AKCSeuKiOpOPmvee4b8dqoMquI9VOwCfSuis Y+EnNHZ9X3S052Drm960s/Y= =F8g1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_T1sTrRDCOHTokKW9c=i8O7r--