Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:02:48 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'... |
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Antonio Vargas wrote: > This happens to me also on 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 (yes, I know they are old). > > Happens about once every 5 months, with the box running at > about 1 month uptime per reboot (home server, there is no UPS)
It's fairly normal for this event to occur. It's due to the 8139 hardware.. sometimes (perhaps during a DoS or ping flood) you can receive far more tiny packets than the driver wishes to deal with in a single interrupt.
The real solution is to convert the driver to NAPI...
Jeff
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