IRQ 15 is typically an interrupt for the second IDE controller. You may be using
SCSI and have disabled the wdc on a mobo that doesn't like that too much. The
network traffic blockage could be attributed to the PIC not being reset before
the requests were handled. IRQs 8-15 are handled by IRQ 2, mid you, so they are
higher priority if your netcard is on PIC1.
--cokane

Mike Smith had the audacity to say:
> > A mission-critical production machine of ours seems to be
> > having issues with stray irqs.
> > 
> > This is in the dmesg:
> > -----------------------------
> > stray irq 15
> > stray irq 15
> > stray irq 15
> > stray irq 15
> > stray irq 15
> > too many stray irq 15's; not logging any more
> > ----------------------------
> > 
> > It seems as if the ethernet traffic stops for about a minute
> > when it posts that message.
> > 
> > I've searched back in the mailing lists to find that this 
> > may be caused by the BIOS grabbing the IRQ -- and was just
> > wondering if anyone else has seen this problem lately?
> 
> No; this is typically caused by having hardware in the system that's 
> generating interrupts but isn't handled by a driver.  It may be 
> symptomatic of faulty hardware or a system misconfiguration.
> 
> -- 
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