From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60711210738i48cad59dm80b13d8ae280fc34@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:38:35 -0800 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] thousands of interrupts per second In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60711210727h726b4f5bnf38af241c95a209c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3e1162e60711201435x429477b5t63d50615adc6d074@mail.gmail.com> <66f4188372977d83962b3f9be56af64b@quanstro.net> <14ec7b180711201621o64a014a5j1c96fca737f8a0d8@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60711210628h12b23b95q7b3d56313c5fbaf4@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180711210634r245d0b9bsc9b3a2a99d008b30@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60711210645j79b2a6aci5bda1c5e14af156e@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180711210651p27c40969v5ccde883e66ce2f0@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60711210727h726b4f5bnf38af241c95a209c@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06e514d8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 21, 2007 7:27 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007 6:51 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > that is probably correct. doesn't amd only "suggest" the clock > > frequency to be what they think the processor speed is when compared > > to the original 1GHz Athlon? > > Yeah their product numbers are not really the clock speed. My > understanding is they were saying an Athlon 2800 was clocked slower > but still about as fast as an Intel at 2800... but that might just be > my own bad memory. > > > > > what is the current time reported by the system? try running timesync > > and monitor the cpufreq for sudden increase/decreases. of course that > > may have nothing to do with your real problem, but i have experience > > high interrupt counts after timesync mangled my cpufreq :) > > > > Starting timesync from the live cd does cause a lot of interrupts yes. > But my network wasn't configured either, which is seemingly the same > thing going on with my plan 9 installation since I didn't configure > any network. > > perhaps timesync should not be on in the default installed > distribution, and users should turn that on themselves once they have > their network configured properly? > > > > > > > At this point I'm booted from the Plan 9 CD and it says I've an > > > AMD-Athlon 2080.... it is, in fact, an Athlon XP 2800+ > > > > > > Ok another fresh install, I killed timesync, but am still getting thousands of interrupts. And I'm noticing I'm getting about 18 fossil instances and 14 venti instances. not sure if that's normal or not.