Re: Argh, Stray interrupts 2006

[Danial Thom <danial_thom@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Danial Thom wrote:
> 
> > My tech tried firing up 1.4 on an opteron MB
> with
> > an HT1000 chipset and, although it seems to
> work,
> > the console is literally flooding with "stray
> irq
> > 7" messages. Freebsd at least suppressed
> these
> > after a few, but when is someone actually
> going
> > to FIX this in BSD? Someone told me years ago
> > that this was an Intel chipset bug and there
> was
> > nothing that could be done, but clearly that
> > isn't the case here.
> > 
> > whats the workaround solution as the console
> is
> > unusable in its current state?
> > 
> > DT
> 
> Same as always:
> 
> 1) ALT-F2 (3, 4, etc.) before logging in.
> 
> 2) Edit /etc/syslog.conf to send soem/all
> console messages elsewhere
> - after which (1) is no longer necessary.
> 
> Bill
> 
Thats not really a solution as I don't want a
system thats processing 100s of interrupts per
second for no reason. I previously reported that
these were gone, but now that I put another card
in the box (a dual port intel ethernet), they're
back.

I know I've been told that its a bios
configuration problem, however I don't get stray
interrupts if I pop a FreeBSD disk on the exact
same hardware. So why is it a misconfiguration in
DFLY but not in FreeBSD?

DT

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