Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts

[Francois Romieu]

Danial Thom <danial_thom@xxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> What's *fun* about it? 2.4.24 shows a 12-13%
> load. 

The assumption of linearity.

[...]
> > 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.

It may be interesting to know if the same drops
happen when you generate a disk-only load, ksoftirqd
still at the minimal value.

-- 
Ueimor
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