Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer

Andi Kleen
2006-02-28T23:54:12Z

"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com> writes:
>
> The machine is running PostgreSQL, so the Lost tick messages occur
> throughout the day, but they come frequently during our nightly cron
> jobs that do rsyncs, checksums, etc. So far today:

What chipset?

> I got another test machine up and running today, so I can start patching and
> testing tomorrow.

What output do you get when you run ftp.suse.com:/pub/people/ak/tools/trtc.c ?
(and what is the _HZ value you configured in Kconfig?)

Does it go away when you run with idle=poll?

-Andi