Hi List! I am trying to find the reason for our fileserver to shutdown unexpectedly (and without any warning entries in the logs). I have come across a warning during bootup:
"Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" As a consequence (??) the ERR field in /proc/interrupts increases steadily (by an amount of about 60 per hour). What does that mean? Is there a hardware glitch?? After some Google'ing I found that "Spurious ..." seems to be a warning which might be related to APIC and IO-APIC being activated in the kernel-config. As one source mentioned, the APIC is for communication of CPU in SMP-machines. We only have one CPU, so can I safely switch it off in the config? On another note: what would be the difference to disabling it via "noapic" appended to the boot command? Does that do the same trick? Many thankls for your answers, Stefan (debian @ goessling . de) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
