diagnosing interrupt storms?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040309114002.GN56622 at elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>> > At a certain point after booting my SMP 5-current box gets all
>> > weird, typically I see 50%+ time spent in interrupt.  If I run "top
>> > -S" I typically see one of the ithreads using 50% cpu.

Try using the SW_WATCHDOG option.


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