From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 03:12:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2781065670 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4217B8FC1A for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F90509C0; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:12:40 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ILCp0IT+ojDm; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:12:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E24BD509B5 ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <496FFADB.1080900@langille.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:11:23 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete French References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amarat@ksu.ru, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interrupt storm X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:12:42 -0000 Pete French wrote: >>>>> kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq22:"; throttling interrupt >>>>> source > > .... > >> Opening the case, reading the m/b: >> >> K9A2 Platinum MSI > > > I hadnt been paying much attention to this thread, but just to let you > know that I also saw the same thing on this machine which has an MSI 790FX > Platinum motherboard. It was also irq22, and I am also running amd64. > > In my case I simply disabled the onboard ethernet (which I wasnt using) > and the problem went away - but then I only saw the problem once, it wasnt > a regular occurrance. If you have an alternative ether card you can drop > in thn you could try that... FYI, this box has always run off an ethernet card (fxp). The on-board NIC (re) was enabled. After disabling, the ethernet storms persisted. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/