watch -n 1 cat /proc/interrupts
..which simply dumps out the interrupt information every second. Another way is to use itop, which has the benefit that it outputs the interrupt rate which is lacking from my rune above.
To install, use:
sudo apt-get install itop
and to run, use:
itop
The output is refreshed every second, and outputs something like the following:
INT NAME RATE MAX
0 [PIC-edge time] 154 Ints/s (max: 154)
14 [PIC-edge ata_] 16 Ints/s (max: 16)
18 [PIC-fasteoi ehci] 4 Ints/s (max: 4)
22 [PIC-fasteoi ohci] 2 Ints/s (max: 2)
29 [MSI-edge i915] 38 Ints/s (max: 38)
30 [MSI-edge iwl3] 6 Ints/s (max: 6)
Unfortunately itop does truncate the interrupt names, but I'm not so worried about this - I generally want to see very quickly if a machine is suffering from interrupt saturation or is missing interrupts, which I can get from itop easily.
To see all interrupts, run itop with:
itop -a
And to run for a number of iterations, run with the -n flag, e.g.
itop -n 10
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