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From: Vladislav Prodan <universite@ukr.net>
Subject: Re[2]: Fwd: Interrupt Overload
To: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
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 --- Original message ---
 From: "Dutch Ingraham" <stoa@gmx.us>
 Date: 7 June 2014, 18:33:12
  

> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> The output you requested:
> 
> kern.eventtimer.choice: HPET1 (440) HPET2 (440) HPET3 (440) HPET4 (440)
> HPET5 (440) HPET6 (440) LAPIC (400) i8254 (100) RTC (0)
> 
> kern.eventtimer.choice: HPET (did not specify 1, 2, etc.)
> 
> I also changed the type of timer to LAPIC and rebooted; there was no
> appreciable change in the interrupt activity.

After reboot what became timer? :)

You can change the timer "on the fly", without rebooting the system.

If LAPIC does not help, then try other timers.


--
 Vladislav V. Prodan
 System & Network Administrator
 support.od.ua