[vortex] problem on debian

Jürgen Sandner juergen.sandner@baypol.bayern.de
Thu Mar 27 13:09:11 2003


I am using debian woody 3.0 stable.
My network card is a 3COM 905B.
In my messages file I can see the following message:
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kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401
------------------------------------------------------------
It seems so depend on the network load, how often this happens (every 5 
minutes)

/proc/interrupts says:
           CPU0
  0:   28630999          XT-PIC  timer
  1:      18582          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  6:         36          XT-PIC  floppy
  8:          3          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:     875049          XT-PIC  aic7xxx, usb-uhci
 10:    3321776          XT-PIC  eth0
 15:          3          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:   28631647
ERR:          0
MIS:          0


Is there a reason for me to be worried about that?

Regards
Juergen Sandner