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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@it-management.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:03:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145566983.5412.31.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604202237.34134@zmi.at>

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:37 +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> When you google for such messages, you can find a lot of people asking, 
> but nobody seems to have an answer. That's why I ask this list, where 
> the Godfathers Of Linux reside, and maybe someone hears my prayer and 
> could explain us sheep what you should do in such a case. Increase the 
> HZ from 250 to 1000, or decrease to 100? Or maybe setting the 
> preemption model from server to voluntary or preemptible? Or is that 
> whining to be ignored, and if yes, what is this message for at all?
> 
> Please give us wisdom, and we will spread your word. Amen.
> 
> Answers please per PM, I'm not on this list.
> 
> mfg zmi *or could you ask in a nicer way?*

Changing the preemption model to voluntary or full preemption could
certainly help.  What app is using the RTC, mplayer?

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 20:37 rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz Michael Monnerie
2006-04-20 20:57 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-20 21:03 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-04-20 22:18   ` Florian Schmidt
2006-04-20 22:18   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-20 22:22     ` Lee Revell
2006-04-21  8:52       ` Michael Monnerie
2006-04-25 10:32     ` Michael Monnerie
2006-05-07 17:59       ` Lee Revell

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