On 3/20/2012 1:26 AM, Matt Thyer wrote: > I've upgraded my FreeBSD-STABLE NAS from r225723 (22nd Sept 2011) to > r232477 (4th Mar 2012) and am finding that a system process called "intr" > is now constantly using about 60% of 1 CPU starting a short time after > reboot (possibly triggered by use of the samba server). > > When this starts, systat -vm 1 says that the system is 85% idle and 14% > interrupt handling. > It says that there's around 157k interrupts per second. > > Any idea what could be the cause ?
This sounds like the problem I had with my intel board. BIOS update fixed it. What chipset and MB vendor do you have ? /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode is handy for digging up BIOS and chipset info http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239394.html ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
