Why is intr taking up so much cpu?

[Doug Barton]

On 07/18/10 03:30, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:14:41AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>
>>> Run top in the mode where all system threads are shown separately
>>> (e.g. top -HS seems to do it), then watch what thread eats the processor.
>>
>> And the winner is!
>>
>>    11 root       -32    -     0K   168K WAIT    0   0:28 18.02% {swi4: 
>>    clock}
>>    11 root    21 -64    -     0K   168K WAIT    0   1:17 18.90% intr
>>
>> The first is with -H, the second without.
>
> Most likely it is some callout handling. Just in case, do you have
> console screensaver active ?

I assume you mean "saver=yes" in rc.conf, and the answer is no, I am not
using that. Usually I run xscreensaver, but at the time this happened I
was not. I do have DPMS enabled in my X config though.

Any suggestions on how to dig deeper on this? Are there any settings I
can twiddle to try and mitigate it?


Doug

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