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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:41:41 -0500
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: high CPU activity for interrupts
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guru@Sisis.de wrote:
> top(1) shows it like this:
> 
> CPU states:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system, 22.9% interrupt, 76.0% idle
> 
> What could I do to figure out what's going on?

Look at "vmstat -i"...

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-Chuck