[Gllug] Wide eyed and innosent new members 21/10/02

itsbruce at uklinux.net itsbruce at uklinux.net
Wed Oct 23 16:00:38 UTC 2002


On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:19:54PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> I'm running debian 3 on a 486 DX4-100 with 2.4.18 and it complains that
> there is 'Too much work at interrupt' which I think is related to the
> network card (rtl8139) but I never had this problem with redhat7 on 2.2.19
> or FreeBSD 3.  I assumed it was the kernel and added the preempt patch to
> try and help it out but I still get the problem (although not as much).

That's a NIC driver issue and the patch will do nothing to fix it.
Which driver are you using?

-- 
Bruce

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