Why is intr taking up so much cpu?
Rui Paulo
rpaulo at lavabit.com
Sat Jul 17 15:19:55 UTC 2010
On 17 Jul 2010, at 08:17, Doug Barton wrote:
> This is happening after I open a flash video in firefox and watch it for
>> 15 minutes:
>
> root 20 -80 - 0K 160K WAIT 0 3:38 14.08% intr
>
> After this happens, my system goes into a death spiral and I have to shut it down.
>
> vmstat -i
> interrupt total rate
> irq1: atkbd0 10384 0
> irq9: acpi0 5 0
> irq14: ata0 153410 7
> irq15: ata1 58 0
> irq17: wpi0 534038 27
> irq20: hpet0 uhci0+ 2496833 129
> irq22: uhci2 66485 3
> cpu0:timer 19238037 999
> irq256: hdac0 189713 9
> cpu1:timer 19236431 999
> Total 41925394 2178
>
>
> Any suggestions? current (r210135), i386 smp. Dell C2D laptop.
What's vmstat -i before the event happens?
Regards,
--
Rui Paulo
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