Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:01:14 -0500 | From | Douglas Gilbert <> | Subject | Re: APIC-ERROR-Messages - |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> > as far as I understood my smp-board seem not well designed - so I get APIC > > error messages nearly every 1-3 seconds. These mmessages do not help me > > because -so I was told - it is not possible to fix the problem. > > They are a warning that your box isnt going to be happy long term.; Eventually > a bad message will get through with a good checksum. There was a panic case in > the code when messages got reset that is fixed in 2.4.0-preleease > > > Is it possible to eliminate these error messages. My logfiles grow enormously > > and are "trashed" with these messages... > > You can certainly comment the printk's out of your own tree
At a frequency of 1 every half hour or so from my BP6 motherboard (more frequent during heavy IO) I found that message pretty annoying and commented it out.
The 'cat /proc/interrupts' last line "ERR: <n>" gives a running count if you are interested.
Doug Gilbert
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