[Wylug-help] eth1 "too much work at interrupt 0x0040"

[James Holden]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:05 +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:59:19PM +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
> <snipped stuff>
>
> I don't know whether this is significant, but I notice that in
> /proc/interrupts eth1 is shown as sharring IRQ 11 with acpi ... which I
> presume is something to do with Linux's 'ever-reliable' the power
> managent stuff.

It's not a VIA chipset by any chance is it? There are ACPI issues with
the VIA chipset related to the time it takes to come back from querying
certain hardware sensors. You might also see this manifested as 'lost
ticks' in extreme cases.

James

>  ... in case  that lights any bulbs.
>
> Dave
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