Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2016-01-09 Thread peter . foster . lists
Many thanks for the suggestions on executing acpidump and building the kernel with ACPI_DEBUG enabled. Regrettably, I presently don't have access to the Acer Aspire 3630 so it will take a few weeks to post an update on this. I'll make sure to follow up at the next opportunity. Kind regards, Peter

Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2016-01-04 Thread Sonic
No clue if it's related but I recently built a new firewall with a Supermicro SYS-5018A-MLTN4 and see an unusually high interrupt load (none of my other systems have exhibited this issue). load averages: 0.08, 0.12, 0.10 firewall.example.com 14:59:42 38 processes: 37

Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2016-01-03 Thread Mike Larkin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:55:30PM +, peter.foster.li...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on an Acer Aspire 3630 > laptop. Even when the system is almost completely idle, `top' > consistently reports an interrupt load in the range 75%--80%. > Admittedly this

Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2015-12-29 Thread Ted Unangst
peter.foster.li...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Tati Chevron wrote: > > > > I have an Acer Aspire 3610, which has run every -release since at least > > 5.0 without problems. Certainly, I've not seen this high interrupt load. > > > > On the other hand, looking at your dmesg,

Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2015-12-27 Thread peter . foster . lists
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Tati Chevron wrote: > > I have an Acer Aspire 3610, which has run every -release since at least > 5.0 without problems. Certainly, I've not seen this high interrupt load. > > On the other hand, looking at your dmesg, there are differences in the > vga chipset, the

Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2015-12-27 Thread Tati Chevron
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:55:30PM +, peter.foster.li...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on an Acer Aspire 3630 laptop. Even when the system is almost completely idle, `top' consistently reports an interrupt load in the range 75%--80%. Admittedly this hardware is mo

High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2015-12-27 Thread peter . foster . lists
Hi, I have installed 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on an Acer Aspire 3630 laptop. Even when the system is almost completely idle, `top' consistently reports an interrupt load in the range 75%--80%. Admittedly this hardware is more than 8 years old, nevertheless I believe the load is unusually high, bas