Re: High interrupt CPU usage in top

[joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:41:28PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:
> I don't know if it is anything to be concerned about, but I seem to be 
> seeing high interrupt CPU usage in top (at least) when compiling things...

This is a problem of system accounting. The pkgsrc build is heavy on
fork and exec, which is quite different from most other system loads. I
get it consistently on my build system as well.

Joerg