From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:38:11 +0100 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] common number of interrups/sec Topicbox-Message-UUID: e44fd41e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8 March 2010 17:21, erik quanstrom wrote: >> my system is doing practically nothing. All 'stats' graphs are low >> with the exception of 'i'. I'm having like 1600 interrups per second >> (so I see a number instead of just the graph). Is this normal? How can >> I tell what those interrupts are? > > if you are running 9atom, /dev/irqalloc 3rd column is the number > of interrupts for that interrupt entry. =A0note that if two irq handlers > are chained off the same vector, an interrupt for either will increment > both of their total counts. =A0this is just a hardware limitation. > > - erik 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? Thanks Ruda