From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 3 11:48:32 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 B506816A412 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from mail2.swebase.com (mail2.swebase.com [82.99.44.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C2E4436F for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:48:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from [82.99.47.5] by mail2.swebase.com (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.0.R) with ESMTP id 07-md50000043123.msg for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:46:41 +0200 Message-ID: <44A90366.2090102@swehack.se> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:45:42 +0200 From: nocturnal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" References: <44A8D770.5060808@swehack.se> <200607031157.58675.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> <44A8F0D6.4060307@swehack.se> <200607031306.12477.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <200607031306.12477.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authenticated-Sender: nocturnal@swehack.se X-MDRemoteIP: 82.99.47.5 X-Return-Path: nocturnal@swehack.se X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail2 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Processed: mail2.swebase.com, Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:47:01 +0200 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 11:48:32 -0000 Hi I'm sorry for the second e-mail but the uname is. FreeBSD unix.swebase.com 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 We haven't even recompiled the kernel since the install. It was supposed to be a temporary machine but turned into a development machine for me and some other developers. Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 12:26, nocturnal wrote: >> Hi >> >> The clock? >> >> interrupt total rate >> irq0: clk 25130235 99 >> irq1: atkbd0 4 0 >> irq6: fdc0 1 0 >> irq7: ppc0 1 0 >> irq8: rtc 288300 1 >> irq11: atapci1 637852 2 >> irq12: vr0 uhci0+ 3890833 15 >> irq13: npx0 1 0 >> irq14: ata0 54 0 >> Total 29947281 119 > > Hmm.. There seems to be nothing wrong with these numbers. If you were > suffering from an interrupt storm I would have expected much larger numbers > in the "rate" column. The column "rate" shows the average number of > interrupts / second. In total your system handles about 120 interrupts / > second, so that shouldn't be a problem. > Are you using "powerd" perhaps? Could it be that your system goes into a too > deep sleep state where interrupt handling costs significantly more time? > > grtz, > Daan > > >