Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:44:26 -0500 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Parsons" <mrparsons@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a high interrupt rate for nics? Message-ID: <20050509144426.GD981@eucla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <427E0DD0.4010806@gmail.com> References: <427E0DD0.4010806@gmail.com>
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On Sunday, 8 May 2005 at 9:02:08 -0400, M. Parsons wrote: > Freebsd-5.3 SMP Kernel. Polling enabled. > > bash-2.05b$ vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq5: ep0 2937064 1 > irq11: ed0 298318862 165 > irq10: de0 276544892 152 > > Are those normal for ed0 and de0? Compared to the ep0 nic of rate > of 1 (although the ep0 nic is not used as much as the other two nics > obviously). Depends on what you mean by "normal". You'll get one interrupt per packet, and those rates are perfectly normal. If you're not transferring anything, you shouldn't be getting any interrupts. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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