From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:32:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:32:28 -0500 Received: from gear.torque.net ([204.138.244.1]:33292 "EHLO gear.torque.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:32:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3A574F5A.6DB74E7C@torque.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:01:14 -0500 From: Douglas Gilbert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: APIC-ERROR-Messages - Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: " gives a running count if you are interested. Doug Gilbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/