From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 13:06:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD8416A4DF for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DB443D6D for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:05:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5E646D11; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:05:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:05:55 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Max Laier In-Reply-To: <200607060208.26315.max@love2party.net> Message-ID: <20060706140527.H92823@fledge.watson.org> References: <6c3c36d00607051702l178c1cb1he58749c03725c1ac@mail.gmail.com> <200607060208.26315.max@love2party.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Vye Wilson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 53.8% interrupt, 46.2% idle - Unusual interrupt use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:06:01 -0000 On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Max Laier wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 02:02, Vye Wilson wrote: >> I'm really not sure how to go about troubleshooting this issue. Can someone >> point me in the right direction? > > "vmstat -i" should give a good idea what is causing the interrupt load. I also highly recommend "top -S", which causes top to show system threads, such as interrupt threads and network threads, as a way to look at CPU use. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge