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Re: [Sheflug] Too much work at interrupt error

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:21, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Hi,
> This is a very annoying problem: my network connection dies
> unexpectedly. I try to access a website (say), and I get this in my
> logs:
> Apr 29 18:40:27 faust kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, 
>                                              IntrStatus=0x0040.

I've only seen this before in a situation where some switches got looped
across to each other causing huge numbers of tiny packets (lots of
interrupts).  I'd swap the network card out first, an 8139 is worth
about 3 ukp so you shouldn't have too much trouble justifying a new one.

-- 
tom

you are huge!  that means you have huge guts!

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