From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 8:18:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2D637B401 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utility.clubscholarship.com (utility.clubscholarship.com [198.78.70.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F24943E3B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by utility.clubscholarship.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QFFhT81066; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas To: David Malone Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , Lars Eggert , Bruce M Simpson , Subject: Re: top shows all zeroes. In-Reply-To: <20020826085815.GA79103@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: <20020826081026.Q58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok: # vmstat -i interrupt total rate ata0 irq14 23 0 ahc0 irq10 15 0 aac0 irq2 6330470 30 fxp0 irq5 17556113 83 fdc0 irq6 4 0 sio0 irq4 8 0 sio1 irq3 8 0 clk irq0 21008332 99 rtc irq8 264460 1 Total 45159433 214 Now, when I repeat vmstat -i, all of these numbers (or rather, all of the large numbers) increase _except_ for `rtc irq8`. So is this just a simple broken clock on the system, as in, my hardware clock is physically broken/breaking ? dmesg says nothing about irq8, so I assume there is no conflict. Further, regarding the APM conjecture, this is a server and (although I may be mistaken) does not have APM in the bios at all - I have also removed it from the kernel. dmesg tends to confirm the absence of APM. --bpat On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David Malone wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:49:23PM -0700, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > Also, just to add a bit more info, sometimes instead of rebooting to solve > > the problem, the problem doesn't exist, and rebooting causes it to > > manifest. So it seems fairly random. > > Can you watch "vmstat -i" before and after the problem occurs? I'm > guessing that one of the interrupt counts will stop increasing. > > David. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message