On Friday 25 June 2010 10:33, Mark Stodola wrote:
> Is this at all related with using a VM?
Yes we have VM installed on these systems!  
A number of users on internet suspect a problem with older mother boards.
I will shut down VM on a couple of boxes and see.
Thanks
Larry

> Is this of any help? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> Larry Linder wrote:
> > Adding "nosmp apm=force noapic api=off pci=noacpi" after a reboot of
> > system appeared to work on first inspection.   Some time after reboot
> > there are more interrupts and a write to /var/log/messages.   Hard on a
> > disk to say the least.
> > What we see is:
> > Jun 25 09:31:47 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:32:55 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:34:37 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:36:03 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:41:35 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:43:42 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:45:37 engr01 last message repeated 2 times
> > Jun 25 09:46:56 engr01 last message repeated 2 times
> > Jun 25 09:48:12 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:50:09 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 09:52:07 engr01 last message repeated 2 times
> > Jun 25 09:54:36 engr01 kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should
> > never happen.
> > Jun 25 10:01:00 engr01 last message repeated 4 times
> > Jun 25 10:02:47 engr01 last message repeated 3 times
> > Jun 25 10:04:53 engr01 last message repeated 2 times
> >
> > There does not seem to be much on the net that offers any advice or ???
> >
> > Need to solve this problem before I have another disk to swap out.
> >
> > It is unique to a single core processor installation, as we have looked
> > for this same activity on several boxes with multi core processor and it
> > doesn't happen.
> >
> > Larry Linder