Setting hw.intr_storm_threshold

[Fabian Keil]

Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist at charter.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote:
> > Oliver Iberien <oliver-forward at charter.net> wrote:
> > > I was printing with native Firefox 1.5.0.1 (FreeBSD 6.0) with
> > > CUPS, which Firefox sees and recognizes. The printer (Xerox N17,
> > > local, parallel port) started cycling through
> > > waiting-processing-waiting messages. Rebooting, I saw a message
> > > about an IRQ storm on the printer port being "throttled". Killing
> > > the job took care of this.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else had an issue like this? Firefox printing isn't
> > > critical but it's always nice to know what's going on.
> >
> > The default value of hw.intr_storm_threshold is easily reached
> > by a printer connected through the parallel port.
> >
> > Have a look at: <http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2005.html#8>.

> sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold=200000
> 
> resets the value just for the session. I am guessing that putting the
> line
> 
> hw.intr_storm_threshold=200000
> 
> into /etc/sysctl.conf will make the change permanent?

You guessed right.

Fabian
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