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Subject: Re: Turion 64 X2 support in future versions of FreeBSD.
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On Wednesday 12 July 2006 00:37, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:57:49PM +0400 I heard the voice of
> Michael, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > cpu0: timer                        19005        129
> > cpu1: timer                         9016         61
> 
> That looks a little odd...

Possibly.  Because cpu0's timer starts up sooner, it will generally have a 
higher total count (and uptime rate which is what vmstat -i shows you) than 
the other CPUs.  It's hard to say if 10000 interrupts is normal for the 
differential though.  That seems high.

-- 
John Baldwin