Re: [hylafax-users] IRQ Overload

["Shane Eckert" <shane.eckert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [hylafax-users] IRQ Overload

We send about 6,000 faxes a day on average. For PCI reasons I can only tell you that we are running the 2.6 kernel.

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From: Riccardo Magliocchetti [mailto:riccardo.magliocchetti@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 6/25/2008 2:24 AM
To: Shane Eckert
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] IRQ Overload

Shane Eckert wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Shane,

> We are using Hylafax on two servers with 8 port PCI modems. (single card
> IQ Express 8 port)
> 
> Things were going just fine until both servers were unable to initialize
> the modems. After awhile dmesg was flooded with the following messages.
>
> Jun 23 17:41:42 s_sys@util10 FaxGetty[27504]: LOCKWAIT
> Jun 23 17:41:42 s_sys@util10 kernel: serial8250: too much work for irq201
> 
> And so on for several hundred lines.
>
> Shutting down the server and reseating the PCI cards fixed the issue.
> Nothing else would do so.

Sorry i can't help but i'm just curious on what load you have when you
get these messages in number of sending / receiving jobs. Also some info
about your kernel version (uname -a) would be interesting.

thanks,
riccardo