Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:06:40 +0100 | From | noah <> | Subject | Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID |
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2007/11/21, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > > I've had other freezes before but this was the first time I was able > > to see what was actually going on. > > IRQ 21 appears to be shared between sata_nv and ethernet. > > > > Does this mean my hardware/BIOS is broken somehow? > > Not neccessarily. It could a bug in one of the drivers using IRQ 21 > (sata_nv or the nvidia ethernet), it could be another inactive device, or > it could be a hardware funny.
How can I tell if there's an inactive device?
> Nvidia stuff can be quite hard to diagnose as we have no documentation > but we can try. The first question is whether it is network or disk > triggered - seeing if heavy loads to one or the other trigger the problem > might be a first plan.
I haven't managed to trigger it again yet but at the time the CPU was heavily loaded and I was re-indexing a database which caused a lot of disk activity. I'm quite confident the network was pretty much idle at the time.
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