On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:00:03 +0100, M. wrote: > > A running Firefox, that displays an ordinary News website with several > > animated GIFs and a couple of Flash ads, here increases the resched.interrupt > > count by ~100 or more per second. After a few hours of uptime, that will > > pile up, of course. Marko has quoted the uptime with his "top" output in > > the blog post. To Marko, you can run > > > > watch -d1 cat /proc/interrupts > > > > This is with Firefox running (right after "defragmenting" as suggested > in the other post I just answered): It isn't meant for posting it, but for monitoring the changes yourself. Hence the -d (the '1' is a typo), which highlights the digits that change. (watch -n1 -d cat /proc/interrupts) > Every 2.0s: cat /proc/interrupts Sat Feb 12 21:58:15 2011 > > RES: 8094091 8916019 Rescheduling interrupts > This is right after killall firefox: > > Every 2.0s: cat /proc/interrupts Sat Feb 12 21:59:37 2011 > > RES: 8101319 8924946 Rescheduling interrupts So, for the 2nd cpu, it incremented by 8019 in roughly more than a minute, which is between 100-200 per second. That's also what other people experience without any unusual slowness of the system. Though, when you've stopped Firefox, does the interrupt count still increase so quickly? And with Firefox not being busy anymore (and not processing Flash), are your troubles during typing words and sentences cured or not? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines