Subject: Interrupt frequency
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: John Hayward <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/01/2001 21:21:00
Dear Alpha People,
On my Multia I'm seeing over 1,000 interrupts reported via vmstat:
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% vmstat -c 10
procs memory page disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr f0 s0 m0 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 58592 2856 7 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 1033 22 6 5 1 94
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1033 18 6 0 1 99
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 6 0 0 100
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 6 0 0 100
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 6 0 0 100
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 22 7 0 1 99
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 6 0 0 100
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 6 0 0 100
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 7 0 0 100
0 0 0 58592 2856 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1030 18 6 0 0 100
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On an i386 machine I see between 100 and 138.
Is this normal to see an order of magnitude difference?
johnh...