2.0.28: something strange

Petri Kaukasoina (kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:34:56 +0200 (EET)


Something strange just happened. Reading news became very very slow
and syslog received these:

Jan 21 15:23:08 elektroni kernel: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011.
Jan 21 15:23:08 elektroni last message repeated 10 times
Jan 21 15:24:01 elektroni kernel: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011.

After a minute or so everything seems ok again.

But kflushed has gained a "little" cpu time:

USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan 14 71224874:23 (kflushd)

Kernel 2.0.28, 486/66, IDE, ext2, VLB, 16 M RAM, 3c509b. IP-firewall. Xfree.

Suggestions?