Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts

[Danial Thom]

--- Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Danial Thom <danial_thom@xxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
> > 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

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