Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261991AbUCLHAj (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:00:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261998AbUCLHAj (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:00:39 -0500 Received: from 69-90-55-107.fastdsl.ca ([69.90.55.107]:12166 "EHLO TMA-1.brad-x.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261991AbUCLHAh (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:00:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4051615B.1030009@brad-x.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:06:03 -0500 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040222 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hmamouche, Youssef" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ksoftirqd using mysteriously high amounts of CPU time References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 32 Hmamouche, Youssef wrote: > Is there any way you could replace one of the network cards and test? I have a > feeling it's a hardware problem where the interrupt never gets acknowledged in > some situations - ksoftirq gets crazy. > > you This has occurred on any combination of the following six things: Network cards: Realtek 8139 SiS 900 Integrated NE2K 3Com 3c905b Motherboard chipsets: ALI M1541 SiS 740 AMD 760 On the following kernel versions: 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.4.22, 2.4.23 (and -aa variants of 2.4.22, .23), 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3. It could well be a BIOS setting I'm habitually setting and forgetting about which is common to all motherboards, I'll have to check on that. Are there any of these I should be looking out for? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/