From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161163AbWFVQRN (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:17:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030309AbWFVQRN (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:17:13 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:37510 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030301AbWFVQRM (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:17:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:19:58 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts Message-Id: <20060622091958.ac824e60.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060622152621.92347.qmail@web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060622152621.92347.qmail@web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Danial Thom wrote: > Running 2.6.17, it seems that top is reporting > 100% idle with a network load of about 75K pps > (bridged) , which seems unlikely. Is it possible > that system load accounting is turned off by some > tunning knob? > > Is there something that shows the current > interrupts/second in LINUX (such as systat in > 'BSD)? You can use/modify http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/sysalive.pl for interrupts/second (it already does that). --- ~Randy