Re: Disable Performance monitoring on F18

[Michael Cronenworth]

On Thu Mar 14 2013 01:15:38 AM CDT, Kevin Wilson <wkevils(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello,
>  When I run cat "/proc/interrupts" I see:
>  PMI:               111               120     Performance monitoring interrupts
>  
>  and these counters keep advancing.
>  
>  Are these Performance monitoring interrupts a result of some
>  service/daemon ? 
They come from NMI. They are harmless.
 
>  Is there a way to disable Performance monitoring interrupts by some
>  sysfs entry ? 
If you really want to turn off NMI then you can add the following kernel command line
argument: nmi_watchdog=0