On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:14:51PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:00:05 -0600
> jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a uniprocessor amd64 system that is very sluggish
> > when compiling now under 4.99.48's GENERIC.
> >
> > top shows nearly-100% "system" usage when compiling,
> > and zero when the system is idle.
> >
> Check the interrupt load -- when I had such problems, I was seeing a
> high rate of spurious interrupts.
>
Well, nothing obvious in vmstat -i.
Jonathan Kollasch