Phil, I don't know how to find out if I'm running irqbalance, it's whatever was in the proxmox iso that I installed the OS from. I ran a ps -aux | grep irq in case it shows anything of interest: proxmox:/home/simon# ps -aux | grep irq Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:22 [ksoftirqd/0] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:05 [ksoftirqd/1] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:05 [ksoftirqd/2] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:05 [ksoftirqd/3] root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:11 [ksoftirqd/4] root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:13 [ksoftirqd/5] root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:06 [ksoftirqd/6] root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:06 [ksoftirqd/7] root 4024 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb17 0:00 [kvm-irqfd-clean] proxmox:/home/simon# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 0: 66008972 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 265829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 16: 4432639 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3, ahci 17: 124325 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi pata_jmicron, eth1 18: 954710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8 19: 5994 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb7, firewire_ohci 21: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4 23: 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb6 24: 273558 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi nvidia 28: 30234710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi mvsas 64: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar0 65: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar1 73: 26838727 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge eth0 74: 27057631 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge ahci 75: 247 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge hda_intel NMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 23087679 23088282 21638323 20580136 22974769 20856094 20144310 20084801 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts PND: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Performance pending work RES: 15236622 9388860 8532928 7181879 13444866 6005599 4856933 3713707 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 3384 5773 5839 5859 4590 5748 5781 5691 Function call interrupts TLB: 201989 195383 193545 196155 251338 249053 272032 319233 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 830 830 830 830 830 830 830 830 Machine check polls ERR: 7 MIS: 0 cheers Simon On 19 February 2011 16:19, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/19/2011 10:36 AM, Simon Mcnair wrote: >> as attached (hopefully). >> regards >> Simon > > Nothing obvious to me. > > Are you running irqbalance? > > cat /proc/interrupts ? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html