From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261277AbTI3Kee (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:34:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbTI3Kee (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:34:34 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:57750 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261277AbTI3Ked (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:34:33 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andreas Schwarz Subject: Re: ERR in /proc/interrupts Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <3F795816.7050805@g-house.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- AVR-Tutorial, über 350 Links Forum für AVRGCC und MSPGCC -> http://www.mikrocontroller.net