i will check that.
and, OMG, /proc/interrupts????

On Oct 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Doug Hughes wrote:

> On 10/17/2012 8:22 PM, Andrew Hume wrote:
>> 
>> screwed by linux again. sigh.
>> 
>> so apparently i am overloading my pathetic linux system with too much tcp/ip 
>> traffic.
>> is there any way to detect this while (or before or after) it is happening?
>> of course no error messages are emitted.
>> but might there be some other thing buried away somewhere, like /proc?
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> 
> 
> Is it possible that you are running into an interrupt processing issue? Is it 
> lots of small packets? Does top show one CPU more heavily loaded than others? 
> Depending upon your NIC, you could have options for interrupt coalascing and 
> spreading them around your cores evenly, as well as configuring the interval 
> at which the NIC buffers packets, handling interrupts, and passing them up to 
> the host after a defined interval. 
> 
> itop may be an option, if you have it or can build it. Else you might be 
> stuck trying to interpret /proc/interrupts.
> 
> 
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