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Watch System Interrupts in Real-Time

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linux monitoring cli

The Command

Monitor system interrupt requests in real-time:

watch -n1 -d cat /proc/interrupts

What This Does

  • watch -n1: Refresh every 1 second
  • -d: Highlight changes between updates
  • /proc/interrupts: Kernel file showing IRQ statistics

Example Output

           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
  0:         34          0          0          0   IO-APIC    timer
  1:          2          0          0          0   IO-APIC    i8042
  8:          1          0          0          0   IO-APIC    rtc0
  9:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC    acpi
 12:          4          0          0          0   IO-APIC    i8042