generating synthetic interrupt load

[Nikolas Britton]

Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said:
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>>How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie 
>>and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because 
>>when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load.
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>Try something that generates network traffic (ping -f for example). 
>Disk interfaces don't generate very many interrupts/sec.
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Thanks. Flood pinging the broadcast address did the trick, got it up to 15.