On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:55:30PM +0000, peter.foster.li...@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on an Acer Aspire 3630 laptop. Even when the system is almost completely idle, `top' consistently reports an interrupt load in the range 75%--80%. Admittedly this hardware is more than 8 years old, nevertheless I believe the load is unusually high, based on limited experience with installing the same version of OpenBSD on a lower-spec i586 machine.
I have an Acer Aspire 3610, which has run every -release since at least 5.0 without problems. Certainly, I've not seen this high interrupt load. On the other hand, looking at your dmesg, there are differences in the vga chipset, the wireless chipset, the USB and PCMCIA controllers, so the machines are not as similar as might be hoped. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com
