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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:16:16 -0400
From: Daniel Petrini <d.pensator@gmail.com>
To: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5
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Hi Folkert,

Yes, there are some utilities. You can use pmstats-0.2 (look for the
link in past messages) or timertop (sent some minutes ago in LKML).
Regards,
Daniel

On 8/8/05, Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> wrote:
> Are there any tools for checking the current number of ticks?
> I currently do:
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> S1=`cat /proc/interrupts | grep "^  0: " | awk '{ print $2; }'`
> sleep 1
> S2=`cat /proc/interrupts | grep "^  0: " | awk '{ print $2; }'`
> echo $((S2-S1))
> 
> But that gives me output like this on a quiet system with only firefox,
> a couple of gnometerms and a bittorrent downloader values like:
> folkert@ehm:~$ for i in `seq 1 10` ; do ./ticks ; done
> 566
> 511
> 630
> 501
> 522
> 533
> 503
> 516
> 518
> 515
> which I find quiet high, aren't they?
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:12:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka Tikkanen
> > with further code cleanups. Are were there yet?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Con
> > ---
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Folkert van Heusden
> 
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