Too much work at interrupt

Glenn gs@lsd.brown.edu
Wed Jan 13 01:46:40 1999


No problems here with samba and netatalk on the same machine.
I've been running both netatalk (TCPIP only) and samba for a few months.
Currently RedHat 5.2 and the eepro100 driver v1.05 on a custom kernel
without Appletalk DDP support.  My /etc/conf.modules looks like:
  alias eth0 eepro100
  options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
The eepro100 v1.05 driver has been very stable for me with these settings.

Glenn Strauss
<gs@netspace.org>

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Dana Canfield wrote:

> This got me thinking about a problem I've been having... Does anyone know if
> netatalk could
> cause problems with samba (particularly with the eepro100 card)?
> 
> Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Larry Craton wrote:
> >
> > > I recently upgraded a RedHat 5.1 system with three EE PRO 100B
> > > boards to RH 5.2.  After the upgrade we've started getting the
> > > error message "Too much work at interrupt, status=0x4050" on one
> > > of the cards (with the v99B driver).  Usually this can be fixed
> > > by downing the cardand restarting.  But on three occasions over
> > > the last week this appears to have caused the system to actually
> > > crash.
> > >
> > > I upgraded to the eepro100 v1.05 driver but the problem still
> > > occurs (usually 2-3 times day).  There are some oddities in this
> > > too.  The card that gets these errors is idle almost all the time.
> > > The other two eepro100 cards, which handle light to moderate traffic,
> > > never report this error.
> > >
> > > This is a single processor machine (200Mhz Pentium Pro) using
> > > a stock RedHat 5.2 Kernel (2.0.36 with their mods).  The
> > > eepro100 driver is installed as a kernel module.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how I can fix this?
> >
> > are you running netatalk?  Try disabling it if so and see if that fixes
> > it.  if that does fix it, you need to find that multicast option for the
> > driver that makes it live happily with netatalk...
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Scott M. Stone <sstone@turbolinux.com>
> > Head of TurboLinux English / Systems Administrator
> > Pacific HiTech, Inc. (http://www.turbolinux.com)
> 
>