[vortex] eth0: Too much work in interrupt, ...

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Hamid Reza Shahriari wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm using 3c905B NIC with 3c59x.c (v0.99L in 2.2.10 and PII 333).
> In high loads I get 'eth0: Too much work in interrupt,...'  message
> and system halts.
> I tested 3com driver (3c90x) but it halted up after 100 minutes.

Please download a newer driver from either:

	http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

or
	http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/

Your 0.99L driver is quite old. You might also want to update your
kernel...

What is the network load of this computer when these messages appear ?

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
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