[Soekris] IRQ 7 - FreeBSD 5-Current

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20020930124811.R14465-100000 at foem.leiden.webweaving.org>, Dirk-Will
> em van Gulik writes:
> >
> >During heavy activity I get the following wrning:
> >
...
> >	stray irq 7
> >	got 5 stray irq 7's: not logging anymore
>
> irq 7 is the "stray irq handler".  This means that if an interrupt
> pin get set and reset before anyone really noticed, and interrupt 7
> will happen.

The above happens when (for example) doing lots of snmpget's, or some
similar burst of activity.

Is this troublesome/worry some, could it be caused by HZ being to high (as
ELAN wants a higher than default rate) ?  Anything I can do about it;
switching to polling mode where possible ?

Dw