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From: oytor@hobbes.er.sintef.no (Oystein Torbjornsen)
Subject: Re: The reason for stray interrupts
Message-ID: <1993Oct27.100529.13627@ugle.unit.no>
Sender: oytor@hobbes (Oystein Torbjornsen)
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
References: <2ais9gINN2t8@xs4all.hacktic.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 10:05:29 GMT
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In article <2ais9gINN2t8@xs4all.hacktic.nl>, ptuomola@hacktic.nl (Petri Tuomola) writes:
|> BTW. My experience is that they cause no harm, except the very small extra
|> system load caused by stray interrupts getting handled (you can't notice the
|> difference). I get stray interrupts with a "steady rate":
|>
|> interrupt count rate
|> stray irq 2985 1 <--
^^^^
|> clk irq0 179836 100
|> wdc0 irq14 84551 47
|> fdc0 irq6 1 0
|> sc0 irq1 5006 2
|> com0 irq4 56583 31
|> com2 irq9 2985 1
^^^^
|> Total 331947 184
Note that both stray and com2 has a count of 2985. Are they connected in any
way?
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