Isabelle, Francois wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting quiet a few "long_timeouts" in /proc/ipmi/0/si_stats. (kernel > 2.4.32 with IPMI v39) > > cat /proc/ipmi/0/si_stats > interrupts_enabled: 1 > short_timeouts: 0 > long_timeouts: 8575138 > timeout_restarts: 0 > idles: 2864059 > interrupts: 10091993 > attentions: 3674 > flag_fetches: 72295 > hosed_count: 0 > complete_transactions: 996609 > events: 3591 > watchdog_pretimeouts: 0 > incoming_messages: 96 > > > I've been doing all kind of tests and the interface is running very smoothly > but I wonder > if I should be concerned by the rather high number of long_timeouts. > > Under what condition is the "timeout" reached ? > What is the behavior of the driver when a "timeout" is reached ? > "Timeouts" is perhaps a bad name. Those are the internal timer polling timeouts, so this is completely normal.
> I think I don't get "short timeouts" because the interface is interrupt > driven, can that affect > the responsiveness of the interface ? > Yes, the driver doesn't do short timeouts if interrupts are enabled because it doesn't need them to improve the performance. > Thanks in advance for taking a minute to answer these questions. > > Francois Isabelle > -Corey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
