Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:43:16 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: generating synthetic interrupt load Message-ID: <41BDD4B4.50909@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20041213165921.GC57328@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41BDC9A2.2080700@nbritton.org> <20041213165921.GC57328@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: >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. > > > Thanks. Flood pinging the broadcast address did the trick, got it up to 15.
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