From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:21:31 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] common number of interrups/sec Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4434eb0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. note that if two irq handlers are chained off the same vector, an interrupt for either will increment both of their total counts. this is just a hardware limitation. - erik