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From: "Vibol Hou" <vhou@khmer.cc>
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:15:34 -0700
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Hi,

I'm using 2.4.4-pre3 and get this message occasionally when the system is
loaded:

Apr 17 16:10:12 omega kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401.
Apr 17 16:10:12 omega kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401.

The nic is a 3Com 3c905B. Is this a bad thing?

/proc/interrupts:
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:   13167527   12036422    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:          0          2    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:      22773      19820    IO-APIC-edge
  8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 15:          1          4    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 17:   50001929   49606064   IO-APIC-level  eth0
 18:    2459038    2364252   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
NMI:          0          0
LOC:   25202946   25202942
ERR:          0

--
Vibol Hou
KhmerConnection
http://khmer.cc