Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:50:25 +0100 From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: "Peter Jeremy" <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, "Ian FREISLICH" <if@hetzner.co.za> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt storm detection Message-ID: <002101c450c7$46a578e0$f700000a@ape> References: <20040611213707.B13626@gamplex.bde.org><E1BYmbX-000Ixx-00@hetzner.co.za> <20040612211105.GK1596@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jeremy" <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Ian FREISLICH" <if@hetzner.co.za> Cc: <current@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: Re: Interrupt storm detection | On Fri, 2004-Jun-11 16:01:59 +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: | >> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ian FREISLICH wrote: | >> | >> > I have a problem printing. The data rate through my parallel port | >> > to my printer makes the kernel think that lpt0 is storming at between | >> > 40k-49k irqs per second. Is there a way to tell the kernel to | >Does a PII-266 constitute a slightly slower machine? | | I'm amazed you can get to >40K irqs/sec on a PII-266. | | Have you tried using lptcontrol(8) polling or extended mode? | | Your other option is to offload the interrupts - either get a network | interface module for your printer or dedicate an old clunker as a | print server. I had this same problem, by the sounds of it, on my "print server" on -CURRENT a while back (a little 500MHz machine). I updated it about a week after it happened and it went away... haven't updated since though. Maybe this is your problem? | -- | Peter Jeremy | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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