On Wednesday, 23.08.2006 at 10:13 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > I've been seeing the error: > > Aug 18 21:24:59 titan kernel: eth-gig1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. > > in the logs when there is heavy network traffic on my Sarge/amd64 > system. The error is produced by the kernel module forcedeth for the > on-board gigabit ethernet controller. > > Suggestions I've found through googling indicate using the > 'max_interrupt_work' module parameter and setting it to a larger value, > rather than the default 5. > > I've done this, and setting it to 15 results in similar errors: > > Aug 22 21:32:18 titan kernel: eth-gig1: too many iterations (16) in nv_nic_irq. > > There's no obvious misbehaviour going on, apart from seeing this > message, but I'm concerned. Forgot to add: this is a 2.6.12 kernel on an AMD64 system. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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