Re: ksoftirqd using mysteriously high amounts of CPU time

[Brad Laue]

Hmamouche, Youssef wrote:
 > Is there any way you could replace one of the network cards and 
test? I have a
> feeling it's a hardware problem where the interrupt never gets acknowledged in
> some situations - ksoftirq gets crazy.
>
> you

This has occurred on any combination of the following six things:

Network cards:
Realtek 8139
SiS 900 Integrated
NE2K
3Com 3c905b

Motherboard chipsets:
ALI M1541
SiS 740
AMD 760

On the following kernel versions: 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.4.22, 2.4.23 (and 
-aa variants of 2.4.22, .23), 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3.

It could well be a BIOS setting I'm habitually setting and forgetting 
about which is common to all motherboards, I'll have to check on that. 
Are there any of these I should be looking out for?
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