From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APIC-ERROR-Messages -
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:01:14 -0500 [thread overview]
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Alan Cox wrote:
> > as far as I understood my smp-board seem not well designed - so I get APIC
> > error messages nearly every 1-3 seconds. These mmessages do not help me
> > because -so I was told - it is not possible to fix the problem.
>
> They are a warning that your box isnt going to be happy long term.; Eventually
> a bad message will get through with a good checksum. There was a panic case in
> the code when messages got reset that is fixed in 2.4.0-preleease
>
> > Is it possible to eliminate these error messages. My logfiles grow enormously
> > and are "trashed" with these messages...
>
> You can certainly comment the printk's out of your own tree
At a frequency of 1 every half hour or so from my BP6
motherboard (more frequent during heavy IO) I found that
message pretty annoying and commented it out.
The 'cat /proc/interrupts' last line "ERR: <n>" gives a
running count if you are interested.
Doug Gilbert
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2001-01-06 17:01 Douglas Gilbert [this message]
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2001-01-06 10:13 APIC-ERROR-Messages - Norbert Breun
2001-01-06 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08 10:50 ` Helge Hafting
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