On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:53:57PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:41:28PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote: > > > >>I don't know if it is anything to be concerned about, but I seem to be > >>seeing high interrupt CPU usage in top (at least) when compiling things... > > > > > >This is a problem of system accounting. The pkgsrc build is heavy on > >fork and exec, which is quite different from most other system loads. I > >get it consistently on my build system as well. > > > >Joerg > > That wouldn't be: > > accounting_enable="NO" > > in rc.conf would it? If not, can whatever it is be turned off? I guess > it's nothing much to worry about either way.
No, that's process accounting. I'm talking about the update of the timer statistics inside the kernel. Joerg
