Hello,
Thanks for reply. I found that using the i8254 clock rather than the TSC
clock seemed to solve the problem, but perhaps it's merely coincidence.
--Rob
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:56:55 +0300
> From: Valentin Nechayev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: High interrupt rate
>
> 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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