[vortex] vortex_error, status=0xe081

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Steven Hajducko wrote:
> We're receiving lots of these messages.  From the documentation, it just seems 
> that this is signafying that the network is exceptionally busy and for the 
> most part, we can ignore these errors, but I wanted to confirm since they 
> didn't seem to match *exactly*.
> 
> Nov 10 20:33:03 lccwaash01 kernel: eth0: vortex_error(), status=0xe481
> Nov 10 20:33:03 lccwaash01 kernel: eth0: vortex_error(), status=0xe081
> Nov 10 20:33:04 lccwaash01 kernel: eth0: vortex_error(), status=0xe081

This is informing you that the statistics are full.

This is an expected event.  It should be infrequent during normal
operation, but may occur frequently if you have heavy traffic or many
network errors.

This message should only be shown if you have enabled additional
messages beyond the default.  Don't do that if status messages bother you.


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