Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.1-2 Severity: normal On SMP host, vmstat sometimes show zero interrupt rate, while interrupts do happen. Example:
$ cat /proc/interrupts ; vmstat 1 5 ; cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 314479374 3131525373 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 12 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 18: 15 15 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx 19: 1062192 9248238 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx 20: 1365075045 1 IO-APIC-level eth0 22: 4749659 241349042 IO-APIC-level 3w-xxxx NMI: 0 0 LOC: 3446442258 3446442271 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 22656 2444 68752 807788 1 1 0 5 6 1 22 9 64 5 1 0 22656 3088 68696 807232 0 0 2180 0 0 349 41 3 56 0 1 0 22656 3468 68500 807020 0 0 3460 16 0 449 41 7 53 0 0 1 22656 8632 68332 801884 0 0 3324 0 0 417 42 6 52 0 1 0 22656 5004 68332 805624 0 0 3720 0 0 443 42 6 52 0 CPU0 CPU1 0: 314479374 3131529412 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 12 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 18: 15 15 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx 19: 1062192 9248244 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx 20: 1365083104 1 IO-APIC-level eth0 22: 4749659 241349150 IO-APIC-level 3w-xxxx NMI: 0 0 LOC: 3446446298 3446446311 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Problem can be observed only on 32bit procps. 64bit procps on Dual Opteron system (from alioth pure64 archive) always gets interrupt rate right. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc2 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.CP1251 (charmap=CP1251) Versions of packages procps depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]