Patrick Thomas wrote: > > ok, after 2+ days, for no discernible reason I now have real top stats > back. > > This has occurred within the last 20 minutes, and I have done nothing at > all on the system save normal operation. vmstat -i now tells me: > > # vmstat -i > ... > rtc irq8 479105 2 > ... > > > The 497105 number is steadily rising ... > > and now, about 30 mins later I am at: > > rtc irq8 938264 4 > > --pt
This has happened before. For some reason, the RTC stops sending the 128Hz statclock (statistics clock) interrupts. One way to unwedge that in the past was to break into ddb and do a 'show rtc' command.. but that is hardly a solution. I thought we had solved this problem. APM however is a known culprit for causing badness here. > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Lars Eggert wrote: > > > Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > Now, when I repeat vmstat -i, all of these numbers (or rather, all of the > > > large numbers) increase _except_ for `rtc irq8`. > > > > interrupt total rate > > mux irq11 4851 12 > > ata0 irq14 94219 240 > > atkbd0 irq1 399 1 > > fdc0 irq6 2 0 > > ppc0 irq7 1 0 > > clk irq0 39123 100 > > Total 138595 354 > > > > "Large ones" increasing, too, but I don't seem to have rtc. > > > > > 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. > > > > Mine's a laptop with APM enabled (BIOS + kernel). > > > > Lars > > -- > > Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
