From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:43:13 +0200 From: Gabriel Diaz Message-ID: <1762419497.20100415224313@rejaa.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <6b2223fb2dd1f0fa56f9a249fc799daf@coraid.com> References: <434213.82267.qm@web1216.biz.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <6b2223fb2dd1f0fa56f9a249fc799daf@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install Topicbox-Message-UUID: 02c77ec4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello erik, Thursday, April 15, 2010, 8:44:08 PM, you wrote: >> main issue is interrupt count does not go below 4000. . .need to dig mor= e into this, probably to compose a mail to the list :), but it does not hur= t too much, at least for now. > that shouldn't be happening unless you're doing a lot of disk/network > io. > if you're using 9atom, one would expect ~1100 interrupts/sec since > HZ is set to 1000. this makes timing work better and doesn't cost much > performance. in 9atom, /dev/irqalloc has an extra field that is the count > of total interrupts. i'm guessing that you have a ringing ide interrupt. > but irqalloc should let you know who's the culprit. > - erik yes, clock is the one which has the count higher. . .other devices are getting lower numbers by many orders. gabi --=20 Best regards, Gabriel mailto:gdiaz@rejaa.com