While efax is running on another terminal
andrew@ubuntu-11:~$ sudo cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 179 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 254 IO-APIC-edge i8042
4: 16 IO-APIC-edge
6: 3 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
14: 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 115572 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
16: 9201 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb4, i915
17: 327 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_ca0106, Intel ICH5
19: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
20: 55078 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
21: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi 537
23: 138528 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 1742086 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 IRQ work interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 130 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
So no IRQ conflict for the 537 device. This also shows your processor is
a single core.
Your /var/log/syslog gets flooded with such kind of messages:
Jan 5 14:40:39 ubuntu-11 kernel: [39585.162477] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=00:11:11:ce:98:15:a4:ba:db:fb:8a:d1:08:00 SRC=10.10.5.100
DST=10.10.5.102 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=11645 DF PROTO=TCP
SPT=57892 DPT=445 WINDOW=8192 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
This adds work to the processor giving less time for wvdialconf and efax
when they select with a timeout. Are you running Samba ??
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