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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:07:08 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Phillip Salzman <phill@rumfish.corp.gulf.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stray IRQs 
Message-ID:  <200001182307.PAA03097@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:42:12 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001181539290.3301-100000@rumfish.corp.gulf.net> 

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> 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?

No; this is typically caused by having hardware in the system that's 
generating interrupts but isn't handled by a driver.  It may be 
symptomatic of faulty hardware or a system misconfiguration.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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