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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:
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>>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.
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>Try something that generates network traffic (ping -f for example). 
>Disk interfaces don't generate very many interrupts/sec.
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Thanks. Flood pinging the broadcast address did the trick, got it up to 15.



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