Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:05:52 -0800 From: "Eli K. Breen" <bsd@unixforge.net> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High interrupt on Dell PowerEdge 2400 Message-ID: <43D6B2D0.2040604@unixforge.net> In-Reply-To: <43D6AE17.3060108@palisadesys.com> References: <43D6A930.8070507@unixforge.net> <43D6AE17.3060108@palisadesys.com>
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FYI - disabling ACPI mitigates the problem, however it is undesirable. I've seen this same behaviour since 5.2-RELEASE, I'm honestly quite surprised it hasn't been fixed. -E- Guy Helmer wrote: > 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 >
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