From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 04:45:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA04876 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.20.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA04867 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA01777; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:43:37 GMT From: Werner Griessl Message-Id: <199605301343.NAA01777@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> Subject: Re: Excessive interrupts question To: robmel@nadt.org.uk (Robin Melville) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:43:37 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Robin Melville at "May 30, 96 11:45:59 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Dear FreeBSD people, > > I have 2.1 running on a Hewlett Packard NetServer with a NE2000 clone ether > card and HP-doctored Adaptech 7770 on-board scsi with one 2Gb disk. > > It runs ok but very sluggishly. Checking with xperfmon++ I discover that > something's generating 20k+ interrupts per second. Can anyone suggest what > I should do to solve this? > > Many Thanks. > > Robin. > > ----------------------------------------------- > Robin Melville, Addiction Information Service > Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team > Vox +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax +44 (0)115 952 9421 > Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk > WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/suba/ > ----------------------------------------------- > > > Hi Robin, Try "vmstat -i" to identify the interrupt source Werner