Well, I was able to do 12K interrupts per second on a Vax-11/785 before
I couldn't execute the null interrupt service routine anymore.

But, I, too, would be interested in what h/w you had in mind.

-Mike Cheponis


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Eduardo E. Horvath wrote:

> 
> > We're thinking of using NetBSD for one of our products. The
> > kernel will receive a frame sync interrupt at 8kHz. Have anyone
> > run into problems with interrupts that are genereted at that
> > high frequence?
> 
> It might be easier to answer this question if you gave some
> description of the hardware you plan to use.  I would think that a
> 600MHz Alpha can handle a few more interrupts than a 16MHz 68020 or
> 80386.
> 
> (What's the slowest VAX we run on?)
> 
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