Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946025AbXBBScl (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:32:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946026AbXBBScl (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:32:41 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:38634 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946025AbXBBScl (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:32:41 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Luigi Genoni" Cc: , Subject: Re: System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19 References: <200701221116.13154.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com> <200702021848.55921.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com> <200702021905.39922.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:32:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200702021905.39922.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com> (Luigi Genoni's message of "Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:05:39 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 20 "Luigi Genoni" writes: > the message appeared just once, but no crash. > anyway the load average was really abnormal. Good. You tested it and it worked! High load average is interesting, because it has similar causes as the "No irq handler for vector", but technically they are completely independent. In practice surviving a high load average is a very useful property though. Eric - 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/