Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:05:41 +0200 | From | "Metathronius Galabant" <> | Subject | Re: top displaying 50% si time and 50% idle on idle machine |
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>>>>Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 50.0% id, 0.0% >>>>wa, 0.0% hi, 50.0%si
>> BTW what means si? (interrupt service time? google >> didn't find anything)
> 'soft interrupt' probably. try disconnecting network.
The cause has been found. The timer of that machine is seriously broken, 1 second is approximately 500ms long. It is a HP DL360 G4 and I configured the kernel without ACPI or similar. Maybe there are some strange BIOS power management schemes active. I will look deeper into the problem and report back. A broken timer is _very_ strange to me (I didn't encounter that in the last 12 years w/ custom kernels).
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