The following reply was made to PR kern/32035; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: tech-kern@NetBSD.org, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/32035: APIC timer help
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:22:46 +0100

 On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:56:50PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
 > Hi Manuel,
 > 
 > Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > 
 > > Probably a shoot in the dark, I didn't think about it much, but ...
 > > Does your sender/receiver processes make use of the network adapter ?
 > 
 > We don't actually hit the network adapter at all.  Here's "vmstat 1" as
 > I start the program:
 > 
 >  procs     memory      page                       disks      faults          cpu
 >  r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi   po   fr   sr f0 m0 c0   in     sy    cs us sy id
 >  0 0 0 1032856 807988    6   0   0    0    0    0  0  0  0   25     80    12  0 0 100
 >  0 0 0 1032856 807988    5   0   0    0    0    0  0  0  0   25    169    34  0 0 100
 >  0 0 0 1032856 807988    5   0   0    0    0    0  0  0  0   21     73    11  0 0 100
 >  2 0 0 1033028 807800   87   0   0    0    0    0  0  0  0   19 229411 58393  4 20 75
 >  1 0 0 1033028 807800    5   0   0    0    0    0  0  0  0   20 278233 69764  3 27 70
 >  1 0 0 1033028 807800    6   0   0    0    0    0  0  0  0   14 275263 69933  3 27 69
 > 
 > "netstat -i 1" also shows only localhost traffic.
 
 And does 'systat vm' or 'vmstat -i' show anything odd about the interrupts ?
 
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