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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:59:10 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, root@deadline.snafu.de
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, nate@sri.MT.net, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: tty-level buffer overflows - what to do?
Message-ID:  <199604050459.OAA18213@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>] The cause has to be a signal on one of the IRQ lines enabled by FreeBSD
>] (because masked lines are completely ignored).  The signal can then interfere
>] with the signal from the enabled board.

>But what card could generate such IRQ? The problem seems to occur _only_
>during boot at about the time when fsck gets run and a second time a bit
>later when some of the daemons get started.

Any misdesigned, misconfigured or misprogrammed card might do it, so it's
hard to say.

>A vmstat -i says:

>interrupt      total      rate
>clk0 irq0     2039463      100
>rtc0 irq8     2610423      127
>wdc0 irq14      17877        0
>fdc0 irq6           1        0
>sc0 irq1            1        0
>sio0 irq4        1657        0
>sio1 irq3      283893       13
>sio2 irq9     1539814       75
>sio3 irq5       25268        1
>ed0 irq12      171733        8
>stray irq7       5032        0
>Total         6695162      328

>The rate for irq7 is 0, so I think it hasn't recently occured anymore since
>bootup.

I think you had 5032 irq7's :-).  That's a lot for an unused device.  I
have 6 after running for about twice as long.

Bruce



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