0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 53.8% interrupt, 46.2% idle - Unusual interrupt use?

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Max Laier wrote:

> On Thursday 06 July 2006 02:02, Vye Wilson wrote:
>> I'm really not sure how to go about troubleshooting this issue. Can someone 
>> point me in the right direction?
>
> "vmstat -i" should give a good idea what is causing the interrupt load.

I also highly recommend "top -S", which causes top to show system threads, 
such as interrupt threads and network threads, as a way to look at CPU use.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge