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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] common number of interrups/sec
Date: Mon,  8 Mar 2010 11:49:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2923b501ed56b7f1be5913e8440e6019@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d01003080838m10deee7arbac66e093a1a0e81@mail.gmail.com>

> Ok. I tried to cat /dev/irqalloc and by far (2 orders of magnitude)
> the highest number is
>
> 32  0  45425578 clock
>
> What is the meaning?
> Is this Ok?

yes.  it should be fine.  9atom cranks up HZ to 1000.
this allows accurate sleeping delays down to 1ms.
this shouldn't be a problem, even for an older system
such as yours.  it just looks funny on stats.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 16:04 Rudolf Sykora
2010-03-08 16:21 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-08 16:38   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-03-08 16:49     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-03-08 16:51       ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-03-08 16:27 ` ron minnich

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