From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752039AbWFWUet (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:34:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752040AbWFWUet (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:34:49 -0400 Received: from web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.126]:1183 "HELO web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752039AbWFWUes (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:34:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4C1z4qDQbJ8yH3eU3/ZrwtncTWDH5x1A3Hofk/JEqr8mYPiqPL9s8AI/00b3rwfMvCELbJknqwVKyp1nAZdFxASTZMEqK/I3WDKtohoTzFH3TCWJQsD6spWHb4hYRB1AeyuJCW5VnvuR6Yx2nQUxGyC1ulHP0BpVe4nbF2CIlW4= ; Message-ID: <20060623203447.60105.qmail@web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts To: Francois Romieu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060622235356.GA31168@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> 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 --- Francois Romieu wrote: > Danial Thom : > [...] > > systat". Plus its clear that the guy who gave > the > > answer doesn't know what he's talking about, > > since he's actually trying to explain away > the > > problem as being normal. > > "75 kpps means 10% of the max load" was quite > fun too. > What's *fun* about it? 2.4.24 shows a 12-13% load. > [...] > > the system is perpetually 100% idle but its > > dropping packets due to excessive backlog. > > No difference when you renice ksoftirqd to a > strongly > negative value ? No, not really. Running the compiler causes drops. re-nicing eliminates drops with no userland activity. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com