[Asterisk-Users] OT: Hardware Interrupts; Who is it?

[Tony Hoyle]

Matthew Boehm wrote:
> I've been trying to diagnose why my server has a constant idle time of 90%
> even when nothing is running.
> 
> After finally discovering what "hi" means in 'top' (it means hardware
> interrupts) I find that this percentage always averages around 7-10%.
> 
> How can I find out what is causing this constant load of interrupts?
> 
cat /proc/interrupts

One of your devices will have a *very* large number of interrupts I expect.

Tony