* Luke Shulenburger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The scrolling rate is about 1 line per second. /proc/interrupts showed > the network card (DE500-BA) as having over 144 million interrupts. So, I > shut down the interface and removed the kernel module. voila, vmstat is > now reporting on the order of 1050 interrupts per second. So, just to see > what would happen, I reloaded the kernel module and fired back up the > interface. Result: the computer is working perfectly now. Thank you very > much. Now I have this question: every time I reboot this happens, is > there something to look for that might be causing problems with the > ethernet kernel module? Or is this likely not a kernel problem at all? > (hardware?)
Whether it is a kernel or a hardware problem is difficult to tell; I'd do an ifconfig -a to see if there is any data actually being shifted; if there is then perhaps your machine is squirting oodles of junk onto the network for some odd reason; tcpdump should help see what is going on. Failing that I suggest you see if you can get a newer version of the driver for the card. Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM, SPARC and HP-PA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/
