Watch Live Interrupts
on June 22, 2009
To see the interrupts occurring on your system, run the command:
# watch -n1 "cat /proc/interrupts" CPU0 CPU1 0: 330 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 11336 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge 6: 3 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy ... NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 5806923 6239132 Local timer interrupts ...
The watch command executes another command periodically, in this case "cat /proc/interrups". The -n1 option tells watch to execute the command every second.