Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:47:44 -0500 From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@beholder.ods.org> To: Phillip Salzman <phill@rumfish.corp.gulf.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stray IRQs Message-ID: <3884ED90.25FAA604@beholder.ods.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001181539290.3301-100000@rumfish.corp.gulf.net>
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Phillip Salzman wrote: > > A mission-critical production machine of ours seems to be > having issues with stray irqs. > > This is in the dmesg: > ----------------------------- > stray irq 15 > stray irq 15 > stray irq 15 > stray irq 15 > stray irq 15 > too many stray irq 15's; not logging any more > ---------------------------- > > It seems as if the ethernet traffic stops for about a minute > when it posts that message. > > I've searched back in the mailing lists to find that this > may be caused by the BIOS grabbing the IRQ -- and was just > wondering if anyone else has seen this problem lately? > I had that same problem, but it happened when I shutdown a Printer port (in my bios setup) for a very buggy motherboard. It happened because, even though I had shut it down, the IRQ was still firing (which confused the hell out of freebsd I guess). Sounds like you've got a flakey NIC on that machine, and you should probably get it replaced. -- ---------------------- Pat Wendorf beholder@unios.dhs.org ICQ: 1503733 --------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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