From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 13:57:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D8D158CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:57:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07706; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:55:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: dan@wolf.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help understanding output from systat In-Reply-To: <19990413093523.A24567@ns.wolf.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 dan@wolf.com wrote: > Greetings, all. I'm hoping someone can help me > make sense of the output from "systat -v" on my > machine. I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.8 on a Celeron > 333A (with L2 cache), 256 MB RAM, 8 GB IDE drive > (soon to be replaced with Ultra-SCSI), and a 4 > GB Ultra-SCSI drive on an Adaptec 2940UW. > > I started examing systat to try and dtermine why > my overall throughput is so low - I'm currently > maxing out at around 2 Mbits on a 10 Mbit circuit. Ethernet? > Running "systat -v" shows my CPU usage to be sitting > right around 13% Sys, 32% Intr, 9% User. That Intr > percentage seems might god-awful high. Am I correct > in assuming that something is badly amiss here? Your interrupt load is kinda high. How many interrupts/sec are you getting on your Ethernet card at full output? If your Ether card is ISA, that says it all right there. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message