2007/11/21, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I've had other freezes before but this was the first time I was able > > to see what was actually going on. > > IRQ 21 appears to be shared between sata_nv and ethernet. > > > > Does this mean my hardware/BIOS is broken somehow? > > Not neccessarily. It could a bug in one of the drivers using IRQ 21 > (sata_nv or the nvidia ethernet), it could be another inactive device, or > it could be a hardware funny. How can I tell if there's an inactive device? > Nvidia stuff can be quite hard to diagnose as we have no documentation > but we can try. The first question is whether it is network or disk > triggered - seeing if heavy loads to one or the other trigger the problem > might be a first plan. I haven't managed to trigger it again yet but at the time the CPU was heavily loaded and I was re-indexing a database which caused a lot of disk activity. I'm quite confident the network was pretty much idle at the time. -- noah - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
