From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.20] (account lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro WEBUSER 5.1.16) with HTTP id 2230526 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:52:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Random Trap 008's with T60 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser v5.1.16 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:52:24 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8;format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:43:37 -0500 (EST) "Carl Gehr" wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:30:12 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >> >>Carl's post is interesting. Do you have the screensaver enabled, by >>chance? When idle, do you have Firefox and/or SeaMonkey loaded? (I >>would >>see the latter as more related to the GenMAC/power management issue; >>i.e., the NIC throttles down, and upon waking up, causes the trap. >>Scott >>told me once (2002?) that trap 8's are almost always hardware related >>(interrupts), so I'm thinking of what might leave an interrupt hot... > > Maybe not so interesting... [I have no clue!] > > BUT, when my system is sitting [supposedly idle], I guess it really >is > not! Why? Because I have PMMail set to retrieve mail automatically >on > SIX different E-Mail accounts. Since they typically were not first > primed at the same time, all six do not really hit at the same time. > OTOH, 'idle' would, I guess, not really be a completely valid > statement. Thus the NIC might not actually 'throttle down' if it >takes > a period of no activity longer than four minutes to trigger it. > > Just thought I'd better mention this so no one goes off on a wild >goose > chase. > Carl, do you have any power management configured in the BIOS? -- Lewis --------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLE, CLP Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia http://www.2rosenthals.com ---------------------------------