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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Mon,  8 Mar 2010 11:49:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] common number of interrups/sec
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> 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