Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:12:58 -0700 From: Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting hw.intr_storm_threshold (WAS printing on firefox...) Message-ID: <200604122012.59877.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <20060408132247.1df00a38@localhost> References: <200604071332.57717.oliver-forward@charter.net> <20060408132247.1df00a38@localhost>
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sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold=200000 resets the value just for the session. I am guessing that putting the line hw.intr_storm_threshold=200000 into /etc/sysctl.conf will make the change permanent? Oliver 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>. > > Fabian
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