46.3% interrupt

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Feb 22 20:45:04 GMT 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:47:12PM +0200, Dani Popa wrote:

> but on top :
> CPU states: 25.3% user,  0.0% nice, 56.4% system, 46.3% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> 
> my question is: why 46.3% interrupt , i don't see with vmstat -i any device use interrupt so many 

top is quite poor at measuring CPU usage, it often gives wildly
inaccurate readings.

Kris
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