From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 09:54:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BA416A403 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDCB43D58 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:54:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 5786 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2006 09:54:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.50.149.43]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Apr 2006 09:54:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:53:57 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: Oliver Iberien 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_U0QoJ755GHG_5Xl=vOq3hu0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting hw.intr_storm_threshold X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:54:11 -0000 --Sig_U0QoJ755GHG_5Xl=vOq3hu0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oliver Iberien wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Oliver Iberien 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: . > 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--