Re: [PATCH 2.5] report unknown NMI reasons only once

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 16:59:46 EST


On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 19:21, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> Those NMIs happen only rarely when the machine is lightly loaded, but
> under load, I get several of them per second. This quickly makes
> /var/log/messages grow.

I guess they are overheat traps then

> I don't think reporting any of those NMIs more than once provides
> valuable information, so I've cooked up a patch which only reports each
> unknown NMI reason once.

Its sitting there saying "Something is wrong" "Something is still
wrong". By all means kill it on your box, but this is not good for
general consumption.

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