[Fwd: Interrupts question]

[Alex Zbyslaw]

John Baldwin wrote:

>>>Interrupt storm detected on "irq18: uhci2"; throttling interrupt source
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>>which ties to the disk interrupt.  Will that be slowing things down?  
>>Would increasing the storm threshold help (especially disk 
>>performance)?  Guess I'm looking for any mitigation that might be possible.
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>There's no easy answer on this.  You'll have to run your own benchmarks.  If 
>you don't need USB, then you may just want to leave it out of your kernel 
>which might help some.
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OK, thanks for the info and suggestions.  Regrettably, leaving out USB 
isn't an option for us.  I'll schedule some benchmarking for all that 
ample free time I have :-)

Best,

--Alex