generating synthetic interrupt load

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said:
> 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.

Try something that generates network traffic (ping -f for example). 
Disk interfaces don't generate very many interrupts/sec.

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	Dan Nelson
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