On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:14:51PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:00:05 -0600 > jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a uniprocessor amd64 system that is very sluggish > > when compiling now under 4.99.48's GENERIC. > > > > top shows nearly-100% "system" usage when compiling, > > and zero when the system is idle. > > > Check the interrupt load -- when I had such problems, I was seeing a > high rate of spurious interrupts. > Well, nothing obvious in vmstat -i. Jonathan Kollasch
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