From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 13 16:59:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 7497C16A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:59:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051DD43D48 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:59:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iBDGxL3u072322; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:59:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:59:21 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20041213165921.GC57328@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41BDC9A2.2080700@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41BDC9A2.2080700@nbritton.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: generating synthetic interrupt load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:59:25 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said: > How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie > and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because > when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load. Try something that generates network traffic (ping -f for example). Disk interfaces don't generate very many interrupts/sec. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com