Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:22:47 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver-forward@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing on firefox results in irq storm on printer port Message-ID: <20060408132247.1df00a38@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200604071332.57717.oliver-forward@charter.net> References: <200604071332.57717.oliver-forward@charter.net>
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--Sig_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Has anyone else had an issue like this? Firefox printing isn't > critical but it's always nice to know what's going on.=20 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 --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEN50XjV8GA4rMKUQRAl5DAJwJeC64cBx8pWvmKoRYhlPqmMny2QCglNfW a1Tnem4M7JNf6ZExK3KqmO4= =3G/D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_p7OI17ADKyaRBDZyLhg5ffe--
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