From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryan Murphy Subject: APIC error Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:04:17 -0500 Message-ID: <1108443857.5226.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: bryan@liquidweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org The following is being displayed int he DMESG and /var/log/messages on a machine in our data center. Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: testing the IO APIC....................... Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: .................................... done. Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts. Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: calibrating APIC timer ... Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 2800.1744 MHz. Feb 14 01:42:20 host1 kernel: ..... host bus clock speed is 200.0121 MHz. The machine is a Dual Xeon running Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) with the 2.4.20-40.9.legacysmp kernel. The machine also shoots up to a load of about 12 and locks up nightly. Could this be related? Let me know if you require any additional information. Thank you.