[vortex] 3c575 errors under heavy load

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Andreas Burkhardt wrote:

> Feb  6 22:34:48 thinkpad kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99Q 5/16/2000 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com
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> Feb  6 22:34:48 thinkpad kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c575 Boomerang CardBus at 0x100,  00:60:08:03:bc:b8, IRQ 11
> Feb  6 22:34:48 thinkpad kernel:   product code 'JL' rev 06.0 date 03-09-99

This appears to be a modified 0.99Q -- are you using the one from my
site, or in some other package?

> does under heavy load (installation) some strange things
> 
> 
> Feb  6 22:12:14 thinkpad kernel: t, status e4ceiving packet size 182 status 80b6.
> Feb  6 22:12:16 thinkpad kernel: us e201, latency 3 ticks.
> Feb  6 22:12:16 thinkpad kernel: rrupt loop, status e401.

Turn down the debug level.  Your poor machine is spending all of its
time generating and logging kernel messages.

> Note that the messges are bogus themself.

The messages are being generated so quickly that you are not reading
them before the messages are overwritten.

> I think is is a misconfigration, but where?

Turn down the debug level.

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