systat, vmstat, and interrupts

[John Baldwin]

On 06-Oct-2003 Allen Landsidel wrote:
> I'm on list, save to forget the cc..
> 
> At 04:13 PM 10/6/2003, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > Not as complicated a question as one might think, but I still haven't 
>> found
>> > a way.. so, is there some way I can get tools like systat (systat -vmstat
>> > 1) or vmstat (vmstat -i) that show irq rates to display the "proper" IRQs
>> > on SMP boxes?
>>
>>Nope, not right now.  5.2 probably will show you better output though.
>>-stable's output isn't going to change.
> 
> Ok, forgetting the two examples right now, is there any way via some other 
> utility to check these values?

Not really other than trying to correlate with dmesg output. :-/

> I'm eagerly anticipating moving the SMP machines to 5.x, but I (like many 
> people) am in a heavy-usage production environment; can't afford to try 
> updating any of them until we move to -STABLE.. hopefully the website is 
> still up to date and the RELENG_5 branch will be following not too long 
> after, but for now that isn't an option.

Definitely understood.  I still run 4.x on all my important machines
still. :)

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