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Date:      Fri, 31 May 1996 21:04:28 BST
From:      Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
To:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Excessive interrupts question
Message-ID:  <mD714F9A5@longacre.demon.co.uk>
References:  <199605311756.KAA26673@freefall.freebsd.org>

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robmel@nadt.org.uk (Robin Melville) wrote:

> OK, I installed the new xperfmon++ ... it works fine. However, it is
> still showing very high interrupt levels which don't tally with the
> vmstat -i report.

> xperfmon++ run as an X-client on the problem machine still shows
> interrupts as hovering around 20 000 per second while vmstat shows
> around 120/sec.

> Is your program measuring something different from vmstat?

> Best regards,

> Robin.

In an earlier post, vmstat -i output showed an unusually low number of clock
interrupts. (but otherwise normal.) Maybe if the system clock used by
xperfmon++ is slow, a normal interrupt rate is shown as being very high. (20
000 per 100 seconds or however long it takes for 100 ticks of the slow
clock)

-- 
Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk



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