From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: "Justin R. Smith" <jsmith@drexel.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Instability in kernel version 2.6.12.5
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 16:38:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051008213804.GB3577@otto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43455F33.7020102@drexel.edu>
Justin R. Smith wrote:
> funky=
>
> 1. the clock is frozen at about 2331 the previous night. Setting it is
> possible, but it remains frozen at whatever time one set it to.
>
> 2. Any X app one starts hangs.
>
> 3. Many operations take an extraordinarily long time. Rebooting the
> system too > 30 minutes (all spent shutting down. The restart was at the
> normal speed).
I saw behavior quite similar to this on a P4 workstation a few months
ago -- after about 24 hours the system would get all "funky" and
/proc/interrupts showed that timer interrupts had slowed to a trickle.
Updating the BIOS fixed it.
Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-08 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-06 17:30 Instability in kernel version 2.6.12.5 Justin R. Smith
2005-10-06 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-06 20:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-10-07 16:41 ` Romano Giannetti
2005-10-08 21:38 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2005-10-10 2:53 ` Herbert Xu
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