Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:06:08 +1200 | | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | | Subject | Re: Question on /proc/interrupts |
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 05:55:04PM -0000, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi! > Short question on /proc/interrupts. > > If I do a "cat /proc/interrupts" I get: > > 0: 2747188 XT PIC timer > 1: 12958 XT PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT PIC cascade > 4: 288563 XT PIC serial > 8: 0 XT PIC rtc > 9: 45153 XT PIC ncr53c8xx > 13: 1 XT PIC fpu > > ^^^^^^^ > Assuming that this is a counter of interrupts happened so far, I am > wondering, why the counter for the fpu-interrupts still is "1", even > if I have done such heavy calculating stuff like rendering or raytracing > (bmrt/povray). MATH_EMULATION of the kernel is switched off, I am > using a AMD K6. > > What happens here?
Interrupts are only generated for divide by zero and other such events.
-cw
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