Re: Locating a possible interrupt storm

From: Doug White (dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com)
Date: 02/18/04

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To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>

    On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote:

    > My working hypothesis is that an interrupt storm is preventing the
    > system from doing anything other than acknowledge interrupts. Does
    > this sound reasonable? If not, can anyone suggest any alternate
    > hypotheses?

    Sounds about right. Monitor vmstat -i or 'show intr' from ddb; if any of
    the numbers seems really high, there's your culprit. 

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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