Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:00:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. AND VM: killing process .. |
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Alfred Munnikes wrote:
> first is gives the message "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." and I > don't think that is normal for a PCI clock generator.
unless you see lockups or a high number of these messages, this is nothing to worry about.
> eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe000, IRQ 10, 00:00:B4:B6:73:BC.
> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x16, ISR=0x0, t=26. > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x16, ISR=0x0, t=23.
apparently interrupt 10 got lost and was delivered as a spurious interrupt. This can be the result of out-of-spec hardware. (card or board.)
Ingo
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