Re: endless APIC error messages..

From: Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 17:04:00 EST


> Running 2.4, I get thousands of the APIC error messages, which fill my
> syslog.
>
> Is there a reason for this constant spewing? The short little patch,

yes: any machine with enough apic errors to annoy
is a machine that is *not* catching all corrupt apic messages.
you don't want that. if you want any patch at all, have it panic()
if it ever sees, say, two apic errors per jiffy.

your patch is about like removing the battery from your smoke alarm...

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