On Monday 11 December 2006 04:56, Kjartan Geble Olsen wrote:
> I have installed Suse 10.2 on a via kt600 based machine and top is now
> showing me this:
>
> Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  7.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 83.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  9.7%si,
> 0.0%st
>
> This is on an idle system. and it is more or less constant. I recompiled
> the kernel
> without smp support and the sy and si percentages went back to 0.
>
> Funny thing is, it only happens on this computer - I have installed it on
> an ali based
> A64 system and on a via kt133a system without this happening. Anybody else
> seeing
> this?
>
> Kjartan
> --
> The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s²

Well, before going to all that trouble to recompile the kernel, what was
the processes taking all the Nice time?  

What lead you to believe it was "software interrupts"? 

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