Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwarz <> | Subject | Re: ERR in /proc/interrupts | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:34:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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Christian wrote: > Andreas Schwarz wrote: >> I get a very high ERR count in /proc/interrupts. If I move my USB mouse >> the number increases. >> >> What does ERR mean? Nothing good, I suppose? >> > > ../Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt says: > > ERR is incremented in the case of errors in the IO-APIC bus (the bus > that connects the CPUs in a SMP system. This means that an error has > been detected, the IO-APIC automatically retry the transmission, so it > should not be a big problem, but you should read the SMP-FAQ.
I don't have a SMP kernel. I compiled the kernel with IO APIC support, but disabled it later with the noapic kernel boot option.
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