From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261328AbTI3KSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:18:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261332AbTI3KSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:18:17 -0400 Received: from mail.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:7060 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261328AbTI3KSQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:18:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3F795816.7050805@g-house.de> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:16:54 +0200 From: Christian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030914 Thunderbird/0.3a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ERR in /proc/interrupts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Schwarz wrote: > I get a very high ERR count in /proc/interrupts. If I move my USB mouse > the number increases. > > What does ERR mean? Nothing good, I suppose? > ../Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt says: ERR is incremented in the case of errors in the IO-APIC bus (the bus that connects the CPUs in a SMP system. This means that an error has been detected, the IO-APIC automatically retry the transmission, so it should not be a big problem, but you should read the SMP-FAQ. Christian, knowing nothing more than this too :-)