On 5/9/09, per...@pluto.rain.com <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> "Paul B. Mahol" <one...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/8/09, per...@pluto.rain.com <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote:
>> > What, exactly, is an "interrupt storm", and how do I fix it?
> ...
>> >   interrupt storm detected on "irq9:"; throttling interrupt source
>> >   interrupt storm detected on "irq9:"; throttling interrupt source
>> >   interrupt storm detected on "irq9:"; throttling interrupt source
>> >   interrupt storm detected on "irq9:"; throttling interrupt source
>> >   interrupt storm detected on "irq9:"; throttling interrupt source
>> >   ad6: FAILURE - SET_MULTI status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
>> >   ad6: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=136936
>> >
>> > etc. etc. until I killed it with ^C.  (Just entering "q", to cause
>> > more(1) to exit and presumably stop od(1) with a SIGPIPE, did not
>> > stop the spew of messages.)
>> >
>> > What does this indicate?  Hardware problems?  Bad configuration?
>> > Something else?
>>
>> Output of "vmstat -i"?
>
> $ vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq0: clk                      497386851       1004
> irq1: atkbd0                        2491          0
> irq3: xl0                           2030          0
> irq6: fdc0                            11          0
> irq7: ppbus0 ppc0                      1          0
> irq8: rtc                       63654324        128
> irq9: uhci0+                      166216          0

uhci0 is doing strange things, what usb device are connected?

It could be bad configuration, bug or hardware problem.

> irq14: ata0                       369620          0
> irq15: ata1                          691          0
> Total                          561582235       1133
>


-- 
Paul
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