From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 15:38:44 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 A347D16A465 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 15:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1B543D4C for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 15:38:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 25198 invoked from network); 23 May 2006 15:38:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.50.132.233]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 May 2006 15:38:41 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:27 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: Charles Howse Message-ID: <20060523173827.0f925695@localhost> In-Reply-To: <302D38D7-E688-47B7-859F-5DDB56E2A2EB@charter.net> References: <302D38D7-E688-47B7-859F-5DDB56E2A2EB@charter.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) 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_..PiKm0FkZ68T.wR4sHaHVg; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Best Practices - interrupt storm 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: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:38:46 -0000 --Sig_..PiKm0FkZ68T.wR4sHaHVg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Charles Howse wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, cups-1.1.23.0_1, HP 1100 LaserJet >=20 > I've found quite a bit of information about how to deal with: > "Interrupt storm detected in "irq7:"; throttling interrupt source" >=20 > Problem is, it's a little confusing. > From what I've gathered, the options are: > Use the BIOS to set the printer port to ECP, > Use lptcontrol to set the port to polled mode, > Use device.hints to do both >=20 > IIRC, in the past, I have used lptcontrol to set polled mode, but =20 > that resulted in: > "too many stray irq7's, not logging any more" >=20 > Can anyone suggest a method to make both "interrupt storm" and "too =20 > many stray irq7's" go away? hw.intr_storm_threshold changes the meaning of "storm", I don't know how/if it influences "stray irq" messages though. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_..PiKm0FkZ68T.wR4sHaHVg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEcyx/jV8GA4rMKUQRAny/AKCzpWSD8AISee68XQ7uZ6GJ01/dHACgvCzJ iW5XQyJ+wqM+H2Lb2QvHb7A= =q2ea -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_..PiKm0FkZ68T.wR4sHaHVg--