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    Zotac CI323 Nano hdac0 Interrupt Storm Mitigation

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      Ramirez47 last edited by

      Hello,

      In case this may help someone else, I noticed unusually high CPU usage following my upgrade to 2.4.4, and top showed that it was due to a very high rate of interrupts from hdac0. To be quite honest, I'm not certain that this coincided with the 2.4.4 upgrade, or if I've just been so oblivious that I never noticed until now. But since hdac0 is just Intel HDA Audio, and therefore of no particular use to a firewall, it can be disabled by adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local:
      hint.hdac.0.disabled=1

      Regards.

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        Napsterbater @Ramirez47 last edited by Napsterbater

        @Ramirez47

        Another option (probably?) disable audio in the BIOS/UEFI.

        I always disable Audio in my pfsense systems including my CI323 at the BIOS level along with other unused stuff, such as COM ports ( i don't have a need for them some might) and things.

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