Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 20:35:42, rrs (Rob Schulhof) wrote about "High interrupt rate":
> I'm puzzled why my system is spending 1% of CPU on system interrupts when
> completely idle. I even with avery thing killed except kernel proceses top
> and vmstat show 0.8% is spent servicing interrupts. A 'vmstat -i' shows the
> only interrupts set are the CLK and RTC. Anybody come across this? I'm
> assuming it's a hardware problem.
One my system constantly shows 12% interrupt time. LA does not reflect this.
Possibly state checking interferes with some external activity.
One should know that these times are very approximate.
/netch
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