I found this warning in my /var/log/messages file. What does it mean to me? This machine and soon 39 more will be used for parallel processing compute jobs. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: IO APIC #2...... May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... register #00: 00000000 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : physical APIC id: 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... register #01: 00170020 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : IO APIC version: 0020 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... register #02: 00000000 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : arbitration: 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... IRQ redirection table: The full startup if needed is: May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 syslogd 1.3-3: restart. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20smp May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 syslog: klogd startup succeeded May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Loaded 7242 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20smp. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.12. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Loaded 103 symbols from 6 modules. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Linux version 2.2.12-20smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Mon Sep 27 10:34:45 EDT 1999 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Virtual Wire compatibility mode. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: OEM ID: DELL Product ID: WS 420 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: I/O APIC #2 Version 32 at 0xFEC00000. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Processors: 2 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Detected 731480342 Hz processor. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 729.09 BogoMIPS May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Memory: 775944k/785984k available (1060k kernel code, 420k reserved, 8156k data, 72k init) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Buffer-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 0.00 usecs. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: calibrating APIC timer ... May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 731.5087 MHz. May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 kernel: ..... system bus clock speed is 133.0014 MHz. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Booting processor 1 eip 2000 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 730.73 BogoMIPS May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: OK. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Total of 2 processors activated (1459.81 BogoMIPS). May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: init IO_APIC IRQs May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-13, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: number of MP IRQ sources: 44. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: testing the IO APIC....................... May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: IO APIC #2...... May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... register #00: 00000000 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : physical APIC id: 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... register #01: 00170020 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : IO APIC version: 0020 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... register #02: 00000000 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ....... : arbitration: 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .... IRQ redirection table: May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 01 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 03 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 04 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 05 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 06 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 07 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 08 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 09 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 0a 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 0b 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 0c 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A9 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 0e 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B1 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 0f 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B9 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 10 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 11 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 12 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 13 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: .................................... done. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc04e May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P3) -> 19 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17 May 9 03:26:56 ln21660 atd: atd startup succeeded May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I4,P0) -> 16 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I6,P0) -> 18 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B3,I10,P0) -> 18 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B3,I10,P1) -> 19 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536) May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5 May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled May 9 03:26:57 ln21660 kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=2411 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: hdc: Lite-On LTN483S 48x Max, ATAPI CDROM drive May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: pII_mmx : 1640.205 MB/sec May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: p5_mmx : 1710.690 MB/sec May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: 8regs : 1257.681 MB/sec May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: 32regs : 739.140 MB/sec May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: using fastest function: p5_mmx (1710.690 MB/sec) May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: scsi : 0 hosts. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: scsi : detected total. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Partition check: May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: autorun ... May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ... autorun DONE. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 10/0 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 10/1 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter> May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter> May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: scsi : 2 hosts. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS IV 9 WLS Rev: 0808 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783249 [8683 MB] [8.7 GB] May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: autorun ... May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ... autorun DONE. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=1 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... okay May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use the wavefront facilities. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: OPL3 not detected ff May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xdc80, ***INVALID CHECKSUM 0053*** 00:b0:d0:22:35:eb, IRQ 16 May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 780d. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 crond: crond startup succeeded May 9 03:26:58 ln21660 rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded May 9 03:26:59 ln21660 inet: inetd startup succeeded May 9 03:26:59 ln21660 routed: routed startup succeeded May 9 03:26:59 ln21660 lpd: lpd startup succeeded May 9 03:26:59 ln21660 nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded May 9 03:27:00 ln21660 nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded May 9 03:27:00 ln21660 nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded May 9 03:27:00 ln21660 kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). May 9 03:27:00 ln21660 nfs: rpc.nfsd startup succeeded May 9 03:27:00 ln21660 ypbind: ypbind startup succeeded May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 autofs: Starting automounter: May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[572]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/test/share, maptype = program, mapname = /etc/auto_test_share May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[576]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/test/linux, maptype = program, mapname = /etc/auto_test_linux May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[581]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/prod/share, maptype = program, mapname = /etc/auto_prod_share May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[583]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/prod/linux, maptype = program, mapname = /etc/auto_prod_linux May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[595]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/devl/share, maptype = yp, mapname = auto_devl_share May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[607]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/devl/linux, maptype = yp, mapname = auto_devl_linux May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[619]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /pw/data, maptype = yp, mapname = auto_data May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[631]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /direct, maptype = yp, mapname = auto_direct_linux May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 rc: Starting autofs succeeded May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[640]: starting automounter version 3.1.3, path = /home, maptype = yp, mapname = auto.home May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 keytable: Loading keymap: May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 keytable: Loading system font: May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[631]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[640]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 rc: Starting keytable succeeded May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[595]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[619]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[607]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[572]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[581]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[576]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:01 ln21660 automount[583]: using kernel protocol version 3 May 9 03:27:02 ln21660 sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded May 9 03:27:02 ln21660 gpm[698]: Error in protocol May 9 03:27:02 ln21660 gpm: gpm startup succeeded May 9 03:27:03 ln21660 xfs: xfs startup succeeded May 9 03:27:03 ln21660 linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup May 9 03:27:03 ln21660 xfs: Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. May 9 03:27:03 ln21660 xfs: Entry deleted from font path. May 9 03:27:03 ln21660 rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded Metta (Lovingkindness), Ron Ouellette 860-565-8926 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
