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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:14:09 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco), current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tty-level buffer overflows - what to do?
Message-ID:  <199604041914.MAA17253@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <m0u4trd-000A0mC@deadline.snafu.de>
References:  <199604041821.MAA01616@brasil.moneng.mei.com> <m0u4trd-000A0mC@deadline.snafu.de>

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> But another problem is still going on on that machine. During boot there
> are several occurences of "stray irq 7" messages until syslog says it would
> not log them anymore. I have no idea where this stray irq's should happen.
> Physically there is no adaptor card installed which could ever generate a
> IRQ 7 ? Possible that this has to do with the other thing?

This is a pretty good indication that something is mis-confugred.  IRQ 7
is the 'junk' interrupt, which means it gets all of the interrupts not
otherwise assigned to a particular piece of hardware.  Something is
generating interrupts on your system bogusly and you need to find out
what.


Nate



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