From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:46:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:46:50 -0400 Received: from ns0.ogilvy.net ([193.41.71.28]:12809 "HELO ogilvy.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:46:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4720B3.7C16F6AA@ogilvy.net> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:46:11 +0200 From: Francois Scala Organization: Ogilvy Interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PROBLEM: crazy timer on dual pentium-mmx (2.4.5 and 2.4.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello, I have a serious problem since 2.4.5 kernel, the timer go crazy (about 10 time normal speed) I can't login because the 60 secondes timeout get only a few second in real life. Same thing about harddrive timeout error. The motherboard is a dual pentium-mmx 200 http://www.asus.com/products/motherboard/pentium/p65up5-p55t2d/p65up5-p55t2d-spec.html http://www.asus.com/Products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P65up5-p6nd/c-p55t2d.html kernel is compiled on the computer with kernel 2.4.4 and following tools: Gnu C 2.95.2 Gnu make 3.79.1 binutils 2.9.5.0.37