[CentOS] Badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

Wed Dec 14 13:50:42 UTC 2005
Michael Best <mbest at pendragon.org>

Seeing this strange error message when I start up the networking on my
new firewall.

I'm using three surplus 8139s as my network cards, and when the network
links come up I get these error messages:

It only seems to happen when the network comes up, and it works after
that without error messages.

Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel: Badness in
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout at kernel/sched.c:2990
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c030dd0d>]
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout+0x5d/0x1da
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c011cf0a>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c0122b98>] allow_signal+0xfe/0x198
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<d085ce39>] rtl8139_thread+0x38/0x13f
[8139too]
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<d085ce01>] rtl8139_thread+0x0/0x13f
[8139too]
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c01041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel: Badness in
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout at kernel/sched.c:2990
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c030dd0d>]
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout+0x5d/0x1da
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c011cf0a>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c030e078>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x3b
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c02b60f6>] netdev_run_todo+0x29/0x2a5
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<d085ce39>] rtl8139_thread+0x38/0x13f
[8139too]
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<d085ce01>] rtl8139_thread+0x0/0x13f
[8139too]
Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel:  [<c01041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

-Mike