getting a annoying message too much work at interrupt,status 0x01

rhea · 01-24-2006, 12:03 AM

Hi,

everything is ok ..........but from yesterday i m getting a annoying message after few minutes interval.

kernel:eth1: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01

this message is comming after few minutes interval .......

what does it mean ?? is it doing any harm to my server ???

please help me out

thanks,
Rhea

bulliver · 01-24-2006, 12:29 AM

Is your NIC sharing an IRQ with something else?
Can you post output of 'cat /proc/interrupts'...

rhea · 01-24-2006, 05:26 AM

CPU0
0: 112861366 XT-PIC timer
1: 12 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 365444 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, eth0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC acpi, uhci_hcd
11: 19262244 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth1
12: 58 XT-PIC i8042
14: 483862 XT-PIC ide0
15: 475 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

bulliver · 01-24-2006, 05:49 AM

Quote:

11: 19262244 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth1

Yeah, you got your NIC sharing IRQ 11 with 2 different USB busses.

You can go into your BIOS and change the IRQ for eth1 (looks like 6,7,and 10 are open) Or else just put the card into a different pci slot (if it is PCI).

And no, I don't think it is harming anything, as long as everything still works it is more of an annoyance.

rhea · 01-25-2006, 01:07 AM

Thanks a lot it worked .U have been a great help to me.I have posted 3 diff threads on this forum pertaining to some other problems .But this is the first time I have got the resolution.

Thanks a lot again

bulliver · 01-25-2006, 02:01 AM

Good stuff! Glad I could help...