Re: APIC-ERROR-Messages -

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:46:00 +0000 (GMT)

> as far as I understood my smp-board seem not well designed - so I get APIC
> error messages nearly every 1-3 seconds. These mmessages do not help me
> because -so I was told - it is not possible to fix the problem.

They are a warning that your box isnt going to be happy long term.; Eventually
a bad message will get through with a good checksum. There was a panic case in
the code when messages got reset that is fixed in 2.4.0-preleease

> Is it possible to eliminate these error messages. My logfiles grow enormously
> and are "trashed" with these messages...

You can certainly comment the printk's out of your own tree

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