High interrupt on Dell PowerEdge 2400

[F. Senault]

Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 11:24:48 PM, you wrote:

> Does anyone have any explanation and resolution for the excessive 
> interrupt%?:

> This machine is a totally stock FreeBSD 6.0 box. I haven't done anything
> except install the OS and boot it.

Not even loaded a screensaver ?  I've had this phenomenon caused by some
textual screen savers (rain_saver.ko & friends).  In my case, top -S
reported a "swi#: clock sio" process eating CPU time.

Fred
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