storm of stray interrupts

Petr Holub hopet at ics.muni.cz
Wed Feb 11 06:04:56 PST 2004


> Please use 'vmstat -i' instead.

-su-2.05b# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                       14391          0
irq6: fdc0                             4          0
irq8: rtc                       19739980        128
irq12: psm0                       105438          0
irq13: npx0                            1          0
stray irq13                            1          0
irq14: ata0                       110027          0
irq15: ata1                           30          0
irq16: fwohci0                 416899230       2703
irq17: pcm0                       548028          3
irq18: bktr0                      428987          2
irq19: uhci0 bktr1                   987          0
irq20: em0                       1250506          8
irq0: clk                      154236857       1000
Total                          593334467       3847

while 'systat -vmstat 1' say at approx. the same time:

  Interrupts
 93413 total
       1: atkb
       6: fdc0
   128 8: rtc
       12: psm
       13: npx
       stray 1
       14: ata
       15: ata
 92286 16: fwo
       17: pcm
       18: bkt
       19: uhc
     3 20: em0
   996e0: clk


 1.5%Sys  10.0%Intr  0.6%User  0.0%Nice 87.9%Idl
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=+++++

And the system is terribly slow :-(

Thanks,
Petr

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                            Petr Holub
CESNET z.s.p.o.                       Supercomputing Center Brno
Zikova 4                             Institute of Compt. Science
162 00 Praha 6, CZ                            Masaryk University
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