High interrupt CPU usage in top

[Mark Cullen]

joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:53:57PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:

joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
Ok :-) At least I know it's nothing to worry about now, thanks!