interrupt storm

[Dan Langille]

Pete French wrote:
>>>>> kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq22:"; throttling interrupt 
>>>>> source
> 
> ....
> 
>> Opening the case, reading the m/b:
>>
>>   K9A2 Platinum MSI
> 
> 
> I hadnt been paying much attention to this thread, but just to let you
> know that I also saw the same thing on this machine which has an MSI 790FX
> Platinum motherboard. It was also irq22, and I am also running amd64.
> 
> In my case I simply disabled the onboard ethernet (which I wasnt using)
> and the problem went away - but then I only saw the problem once, it wasnt
> a regular occurrance. If you have an alternative ether card you can drop
> in thn you could try that...

FYI, this box has always run off an ethernet card (fxp).  The on-board 
NIC (re) was enabled.  After disabling, the ethernet storms persisted.


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