Re: High interrupt CPU usage in top

[Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@xxxxxxxxx>]

joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:53:57PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:
>
> > joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > That wouldn't be:
> >
> >  accounting_enable="NO"
> >
> > in rc.conf would it? If not, can whatever it is be turned off? I guess 
> > it's nothing much to worry about either way.
>
>
> No, that's process accounting. I'm talking about the update of the timer
> statistics inside the kernel.
>
> Joerg

Ok :-) At least I know it's nothing to worry about now, thanks!