From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16.1 & D state processes
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:45:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145515521.9712.8.camel@homer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420055422.37845.qmail@web52610.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:54 +1000, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> A couple of interesting things I've noticed after its
> recovery:
> 1. Executing "time sleep 1", takes more than 1 second.
> It reports real as 3 to 5 seconds, while my stop watch
> measures it as closer to 50 seconds.
Ah. Something bad happened to time keeping, and that likely screwed up
(time dependent) io, not the other way around.
> 2. Pressing & holding a key at the console doesn't
> produce repeating characters.
>
> Thought they might shed some light on the problem. (I
> ought to look at all the RTC & Time related settings
> between my minimal .config & FC5's, for I believe
> they're connected.)
Good idea. What time source are you using? I'd try plain old pit.
-Mike
(As an aside, I suspect you're going to find that you've got dodgy
hardware.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-17 23:49 2.6.16.1 & D state processes Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-04-18 4:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-18 5:07 ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-04-18 6:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-04-18 9:35 ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-04-18 12:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-04-20 5:54 ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-04-20 6:45 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2006-04-20 6:51 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-03 7:04 ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-05-03 7:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-08 0:57 ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
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