High interrupt CPU usage in top

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

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