Too much work in interrupt

[Craig Coles <CColes@keylabs.com>]

I have got three different machines, out of serveral more, that are
reporting the message:
eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401

The message doesn't appear continually, but periodically through-out the
day, and sometimes a few times per minute.  Most of the boxes I work with
use 'unstable' with 2.2.19 and 2.4.3 kernels, and one a different distro.
The problem is being seen on the 'other distro' box, and two of my
'unstable' installs (I have many other unstable installs too that aren't
seeing the problem).

Does anyone know what causes this, what is happening, or what I can do to
stop the messages?

Thanks for your time,


-Craig