From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 22:45:50 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 2FCB916A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:45:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9365E43D4C for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:45:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.1.108] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0OMjhTZ065899; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:45:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <43D6AE17.3060108@palisadesys.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:45:43 -0600 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eli K. Breen" References: <43D6A930.8070507@unixforge.net> In-Reply-To: <43D6A930.8070507@unixforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Palisade-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High interrupt on Dell PowerEdge 2400 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: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:45:50 -0000 Eli K. Breen wrote: > Does anyone have any explanation and resolution for the excessive > interrupt%?: > > (System dmesg at the end of this message) > ======================================================= > last pid: 2756; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > up 0+15:22:49 14:02:47 > 20 processes: 1 running, 19 sleeping > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 16.1% interrupt, > 83.5% idle > Mem: 6540K Active, 118M Inact, 97M Wired, 12K Cache, 112M Buf, 1028M Free > Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > 2235 elib 1 96 0 2368K 1644K RUN 0:19 0.00% top > 2233 elib 1 96 0 6076K 3144K select 0:02 0.00% sshd > 477 root 1 96 0 3416K 2816K select 0:02 0.00% sendmail > 497 root 1 8 0 1312K 1032K nanslp 0:00 0.00% cron > 348 root 1 96 0 1292K 872K select 0:00 0.00% syslogd > 421 root 1 96 0 1208K 772K select 0:00 0.00% usbd > 2229 root 1 4 0 6108K 3136K sbwait 0:00 0.00% sshd > 481 smmsp 1 20 0 3296K 2688K pause 0:00 0.00% sendmail > 2234 elib 1 8 0 1676K 1256K wait 0:00 0.00% sh > 560 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 472 root 1 96 0 3352K 2484K select 0:00 0.00% sshd > 567 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 562 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 561 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 563 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 564 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 565 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 566 root 1 5 0 1264K 928K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty > 319 root 1 113 0 500K 352K select 0:00 0.00% devd > 171 root 1 20 0 1172K 644K pause 0:00 0.00% adjkerntz > ======================================================= > > This machine is a totally stock FreeBSD 6.0 box. I haven't done > anything except install the OS and boot it. > > Ideas? What does "vmstat -i" report? Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.