NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have recently upgraded to Gigabit and several times the system has locked up with scrolling error 'Too much work at interrupt !'

Would anyone have any ideas about this or is it something simple like I need more memory ?

Below is a dump which shows an example :-

Processor (CPU)
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
cpu MHz : 400.014
cache size : 64 KB
bogomips : 797.90


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Memory

Mem: total 187988 used 184768 free3220 shared 0 buffers 3584

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Disks
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Device
System 3.9M 3.3M 548.0k 86% RAM Disk
Storage Area 150.3G 77.6G 72.7G 52% NAS Disk-1


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Network Interface
Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
RTL8169 at 0xcc800f00, 00:40:f4:b5:27:74, IRQ 11
Auto-negotiation Enabled.
1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Too much work at interrupt!
Too much work at interrupt!
Too much work at interrupt!
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:B5:27:74
inet addr:192.168.0.9 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1357000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2377360 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:248701852 (237.1 MiB) TX bytes:3492439231 (3.2 GiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf00

regards DERKY

Chug more memory in the sucker and compare your results I myself doubled mine and can definately see the results of it.

Sounds like an IRQ problem. You may have to revisit your BIOS settings in order to correct the problem.

SOLVED MY PROBLEM

Bought an Intel PRO1000 XT Gig nic on Ebay for a tenner, replaced the Realtek 8169 nic and the problem has gone.

Also now added more memory but no significant speed increase noticed, but Task Manager (XP) now shows a very smooth line at 7%.

Network utilisation shows as 7% and a 3.9Gb folder moved or copied in 7.5 minutes.

Don't know if this is good, bad or average speed.