From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 19 2:46:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (carlton.innotts.co.uk [212.56.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D763D1519D for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robmel@innotts.co.uk) Received: from muffin.highwire.local (pool-1-p34.innotts.co.uk [212.56.33.34]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08531; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:46:29 GMT Received: from [172.16.17.20] (robsmac.highwire.local [172.16.17.20]) by muffin.highwire.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00439; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:45:33 GMT (envelope-from robmel@innotts.co.uk) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: robmel@wrcmail (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200001182307.PAA03097@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200001182307.PAA03097@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:45:38 +0000 To: Phillip Salzman From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: Stray IRQs Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > A mission-critical production machine of ours seems to be > > having issues with stray irqs. > > > > This is in the dmesg: > > ----------------------------- > > stray irq 15 > > stray irq 15 > > stray irq 15 > > stray irq 15 > > stray irq 15 > > too many stray irq 15's; not logging any more > > ---------------------------- >No; this is typically caused by having hardware in the system that's >generating interrupts but isn't handled by a driver. It may be >symptomatic of faulty hardware or a system misconfiguration. I agree, I saw this when I removed an lpt driver from the kernel. Make sure all your hardware devices are config-ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk Pages: http://www.nadt.org.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message