[Triumf-linux-managers] Anyone has experience with this sort of a problem?

Konstantin Olchanski olchansk@triumf.ca
Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:08:42 -0700


On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:35:11PM -0700, Mina Nozar wrote:
> Jul 18 01:25:25 cadenza kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status 
> 8401.

I believe all machines with 3com 100Mbit/s network cards (3C905B/C) show
this message in the system log.

I once looked into the source of the message in the 3com kernel driver
and it seems to be triggered by excessive broadcast traffic.

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