Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:53:57 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting hw.intr_storm_threshold Message-ID: <20060413115357.47a35719@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200604122012.59877.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> References: <200604071332.57717.oliver-forward@charter.net> <20060408132247.1df00a38@localhost> <200604122012.59877.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--Sig_U0QoJ755GHG_5Xl=vOq3hu0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Oliver Iberien <oliver-forward@charter.net> wrote: > > > I was printing with native Firefox 1.5.0.1 (FreeBSD 6.0) with > > > CUPS, which Firefox sees and recognizes. The printer (Xerox N17, > > > local, parallel port) started cycling through > > > waiting-processing-waiting messages. Rebooting, I saw a message > > > about an IRQ storm on the printer port being "throttled". Killing > > > the job took care of this. > > > > > > Has anyone else had an issue like this? Firefox printing isn't > > > critical but it's always nice to know what's going on. > > > > The default value of hw.intr_storm_threshold is easily reached > > by a printer connected through the parallel port. > > > > Have a look at: <http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2005.html#8>. > sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold=3D200000 >=20 > resets the value just for the session. I am guessing that putting the > line >=20 > hw.intr_storm_threshold=3D200000 >=20 > into /etc/sysctl.conf will make the change permanent? You guessed right. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_U0QoJ755GHG_5Xl=vOq3hu0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEPh++jV8GA4rMKUQRAk/gAJ4omtmy3AiP2YIyB7K/lSCjyEPXOwCgmHrg ozzFpvZeExEMvRq5XcSf7a8= =qqSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_U0QoJ755GHG_5Xl=vOq3hu0--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060413115357.47a35719>