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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:57:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diagnosing interrupt storms?
Message-ID:  <20040309095540.U69332@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040309071912.GM56622@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20040309071912.GM56622@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> At a certain point after booting my SMP 5-current box gets all
> weird, typically I see 50%+ time spent in interrupt.  If I run "top
> -S" I typically see one of the ithreads using 50% cpu.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what it's doing, what has gone wrong etc.
>
> Are there any sysctls to look at or things I can do to diagnose
> this?

vmstat -i is useful for figuring out exactly which interrupt is storming,
although the ithread might hint it too.

Which one is it?

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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