On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 08:29  AM, jmmv@menta.net wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:52:39AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:19:57PM +0200, jmmv@menta.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Some more notes: when this happens, if I run top, I can see that the 
>>> CPU
>>> interrupt state is very high, over 75% (dunno if this has something 
>>> to do).
>>
>> Can you see which interrupts rates are high when you see this (systat 
>> vm
>> will show you this) ?
>
> The highest is "pic0 pin 14" (all others seem to keep a somewhat 
> constant
> value).  When XMMS does pauses during playback, that interrupt is over 
> 450
> (the maximun I've seen is probably 555, and this was unpacking system 
> sets).
> (BTW, what do these numbers mean?)

...and what is the device on that interrupt?  (I think it's probably 
the IDE controller, but it would be nice if you could verify that.)

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>