From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 8 11:23:06 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 CA75116A403 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:23:06 +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 F0B7243D4C for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:23:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 22787 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2006 11:23:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.50.128.28]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Apr 2006 11:23:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:22:47 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: Oliver Iberien Message-ID: <20060408132247.1df00a38@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200604071332.57717.oliver-forward@charter.net> References: <200604071332.57717.oliver-forward@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_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing on firefox results in irq storm on printer port 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: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:23:06 -0000 --Sig_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Has anyone else had an issue like this? Firefox printing isn't > critical but it's always nice to know what's going on.=20 The default value of hw.intr_storm_threshold is easily reached by a printer connected through the parallel port. Have a look at: . Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEN50XjV8GA4rMKUQRAl5DAJwJeC64cBx8pWvmKoRYhlPqmMny2QCglNfW a1Tnem4M7JNf6ZExK3KqmO4= =3G/D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe--