Interrupt using all the CPU

nocturnal nocturnal at swehack.se
Mon Jul 3 10:28:59 UTC 2006


Hi

The clock?

interrupt                          total       rate
irq0: clk                       25130235         99
irq1: atkbd0                           4          0
irq6: fdc0                             1          0
irq7: ppc0                             1          0
irq8: rtc                         288300          1
irq11: atapci1                    637852          2
irq12: vr0 uhci0+                3890833         15
irq13: npx0                            1          0
irq14: ata0                           54          0
Total                           29947281        119

Also, in reply to Fabian Kell; top -S doesn't show me which process is 
using all the interrupt CPU, thank you for the tip.



Med vänliga hälsningar

Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal
[Swehack] http://swehack.se


Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 10:38, nocturnal wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm having a few problems with a webserver. Today the idle was at 0.0
>> and it's still like this. It doesn't look like it's affecting web
>> services but it looks weird and i'm afraid that the CPU is working it's
>> ass off with something. Of course nothing shows up in top or ps that
>> could indicate which process is taking up all this cpu and since
>> interrupt is the one using it i'm not even sure anything is actually
>> using up CPU since i don't know what interrupt is. Any hints or pointers
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> It looks like interrupt and system are fighting for percents, interrupt
>> has 100% constantly and as soon as interrupt drops system takes exactly
>> what's left over and sometimes system doesn't do it so idle gets a few
>> percents. It's weird to me simply because i can't find a description of
>> what interrupt shows in top anywhere in the manuals.
> 
> Try "vmstat -i" to show you what device is causing the interrupts.
> 
> grtz,
> Daan
> 
> 
> 



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