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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ ----------------------- Andrew Hume 623-551-2845 (VO and best) 973-236-2014 (NJ) [email protected]
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