'top' showing high interrupt rate

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed May 21 18:27:15 PDT 2003


Paul Hamilton wrote:
> I noticed that top shows a rather high interrupt rate, usually hovering
> around 60%!  Here is a sample:-
[ ... ]
> Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot further?  How can I isolate what is
> causing the rather high interrupt rate?

By any chance, have you altered the system quantum (HZ), or enabled 
kern.polling?

-Chuck




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