High interrupt on Dell PowerEdge 2400

[Eli K. Breen]

Ok, I lied. disabling ACPI didn't fix the problem at all. However it 
doesn't look like this problem manifests itself until a minute or so 
after boot-up (hence my confusion).

Any ideas?

mistert# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                           2          0
irq6: fdc0                            10          0
irq13: npx0                            1          0
irq14: ata0                          154          0
irq16: fxp0                         2870          1
irq22: mlx0                         4375          1
irq30: ahc0                          109          0
cpu0: timer                      5013679       1999
Total                            5021200       2002

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Guy Helmer wrote:
> Eli K. Breen wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have any explanation and resolution for the excessive 
>> interrupt%?:
>>
>> (System dmesg at the end of this message)
>> =======================================================
>> =======================================================
>>
>> This machine is a totally stock FreeBSD 6.0 box. I haven't done 
>> anything except install the OS and boot it.
>>
>> Ideas?
> 
> What does "vmstat -i" report?
> 
> Guy
>