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From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: Nathan Becker <nbecker@physics.ucsb.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lost ticks and Hangcheck
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:47:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050830134743.GA26890@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508182351460.6338@claven.physics.ucsb.edu>

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:41:07AM -0700, Nathan Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.6.12.5 with x86_64 target on an AMD X2 4800+ and 
> Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard (bios version F8).  I'm having a problem 
> with lost clock ticks.  The dmesg says
> 
> warning: many lost ticks.
> Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
> 
> Also if I enable hangcheck, then I get a huge number of Hangcheck messages 
> in dmesg.

I get a lot of "kernel: Hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin!" messages
from 2.6.13-rc7 on AMD64 X2 3800+ and Asus A8V deluxe motherboard. No lost
ticks messages however.

> 
> The main other symptom is that the system clock runs fast and 
> inaccurately.  It seems to run more inaccurately when I'm using the CPU, 
> and be basically OK when idling.

That seems to be the case here too: clock runs too fast under heavy load
(burn-in tests involving kernel builds and large disk copies).

-- 
Frank

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-19  7:41 lost ticks and Hangcheck Nathan Becker
2005-08-19  9:45 ` Kurt Wall
2005-08-20  0:22   ` Nathan Becker
2005-08-20  0:34     ` john stultz
2005-08-20  9:50       ` Nathan Becker
2005-08-30 13:47 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2005-09-04 11:39   ` 2.6.13 SMP on Athlon X2: nanosleep returning waay to soon, clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME...) proceeding too fast Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-04 14:27     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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