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

[Steven McDonald]

    Yes, This is what I meant by the TRIUMF having a very chatty network 
being essentially one large broadcast domain, with over 1000 hosts in 
that domain.

    Steve

Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> 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.
>
>