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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: G5 Xserve rackmeter broken?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 08:13:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431296015.13039.12.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150510183259.GA13777@aspire-one.musicnaut.iki.fi>

On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 21:32 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With 4.1-rc2 the rackmeter driver for G5 Xserve is giving bogus
> led patterns. So far I have seen at least the following:
> 
> a) With static load the leds seems to be sane and report CPU
> usage properly, but after few minutes they go completely OFF,
> even if the CPU load remains high.
> 
> b) On a completely idle system, leds alter between all OFF and all ON
> roughly once a second.
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot say which was the last kernel where this worked
> properly... These servers were away from normal use for a while due
> to PSU issues.

And mine is dead due to ... PSU issue :-(

It could be that what we use to get the "idle time" isn't correct
anymore...

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-10 18:32 G5 Xserve rackmeter broken? Aaro Koskinen
2015-05-10 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-05-12 17:55   ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-05-12 20:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 10:06       ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-05-14 10:14         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 11:48           ` Aaro Koskinen

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