On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:08:59AM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> 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?

Depends on your hardware, and what you're irq handler has to do. I've seen a
sustained rate of more than 20K interrupt/seconds (on 5mn average - peack rate
was certainly much higther) on a pentium 200, with 5 100Mbs NICs.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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