Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

Paul Fulghum
2006-07-29T02:37:29Z

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 18:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing
> anything about. The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu memory in
> the kstat structure.
>
> I assume you have a large NR_CPUS? Decreasing it should help.

It was using the Fedora Core 5 default of 255.
Reducing it to 2 makes it work.

So the timer int 0 problem is specific to the machine.
I'm guessing that the cheap HP machine using the ATI chipset
is one of the boards Andi was talking about.

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Paul