dealing with interupt storms .....

[Gary Jennejohn]

"Wilkinson, Alex" writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> How does one stop an interrupt storm in RELENG_5 ?
> 
> >From top(1)
> 
> CPU states: 10.9% user,  0.0% nice,  3.9% system, 85.3% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> 
> >From vmstat(1)
> 
>                                  total          rate
>                                  -----          ----
> irq18: uhci2 bt0++               9187313        426
> 
> 

426 interrupts/sec isn't exactly a storm. I have 999/sec on my clock
alone and see very low interrupt values in top. Is your top in step
with your kernel?

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