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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: tickless scheduling
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Network file transfers and fscks stop on Toshiba netbook unless
> system receives external events

Can you provide /proc/timer_list output?

I assume booting with nohz=off from grub resolves the issue?

Sounds similar to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12118

thanks
-john