Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-26 Thread Oliver Fromme
Artem Kuchin wrote: > Well, problem with top is that on dual 3GHZ box it alsway s > shows 0% load when not loaded with real traffic (web traffic) no matter > if it is polling of int handling. Great, so your machine doesn't have any significant overhead for the timer interrupt. That was your qu

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Proto
Artem Kuchin wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Artem Kuchin wrote: >>> Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: > 3) Is timer int really generated on each cpu? Am i really wasting > cpu time on ~4000 ints per second? 4000 ints per second is rather nothing on any modern CPU.

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: 3) Is timer int really generated on each cpu? Am i really wasting cpu time on ~4000 ints per second? 4000 ints per second is rather nothing on any modern CPU. Have a look at the top(1) display of an otherwise i

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Artem Kuchin wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Artem Kuchin wrote: > > > 3) Is timer int really generated on each cpu? Am i really wasting > > > cpu time on ~4000 ints per second? > > > > 4000 ints per second is rather nothing on any modern CPU. > > Have a look at the top(1) display of an o

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
3) Is timer int really generated on each cpu? Am i really wasting cpu time on ~4000 ints per second? 4000 ints per second is rather nothing on any modern CPU. Have a look at the top(1) display of an otherwise idle system. The "%interrupt" column should be zero, even if it's processing 4000 time

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Artem Kuchin wrote: > I enabled device polling in the kernel, in nics and > set HZ=1000. HZ=1000 is the default anyway. You only need to set it if you want a value other than 1000. For example, on my notebook I have set HZ=600 because that machine often used for various media playback (video).

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:13, Artem Kuchin wrote: I have dual CPU with HT. If i turn on HT (and it does help in my case) it shoud 2000 int x4 = 8000 ints per second. SO, i have saved 200 int/second from NIC and got myself 8000 ints/second from timer. This kind of

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:13, Artem Kuchin wrote: > I have dual CPU with HT. If i turn on HT (and it does help in my case) > it shoud 2000 int x4 = 8000 ints per second. SO, i have saved 200 > int/second from NIC and got myself 8000 ints/second from timer. This kind of load(200intrs/s) earn

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 20:58, Artem Kuchin wrote: What i don't understand is why timer rate on each cpu is 1995? I have set it to 1000, not 1995 or 2000. I have seen it showing 2000 on another box. So 1) why not 1000? I can only make assumptions about the doublin

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 24 September 2007 20:58, Artem Kuchin wrote: > > What i don't understand is why timer rate on each cpu is 1995? I have > > set it to 1000, not 1995 or 2000. I have seen it showing 2000 on > > another box. > > So > > 1) why not 1000? I can only make assumptions about the doubling, and I

device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Anyone any clue on this issue: Artem Kuchin wrote: I enabled device polling in the kernel, in nics and set HZ=1000. How, when i do omni2# vmstat -i i see interrupt total rate irq14: ata0 47 0 irq15: ata1

device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-22 Thread Artem Kuchin
I enabled device polling in the kernel, in nics and set HZ=1000. How, when i do omni2# vmstat -i i see interrupt total rate irq14: ata0 47 0 irq15: ata1 41 0 irq28: em0