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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: praveen.ray@crcnet1.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: timer interrupts on HP machines
Date: 30 Jan 2003 16:44:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1043945075.31674.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301300934.54201.praveen.ray@crcnet1.com>

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:34, Praveen Ray wrote:
> We have few HP (LPR NetServers and LT6000) which run 2.4.18  (from RedHat 8.0) 
> . The problem is that sometimes the time interrupts stop coming - i.e. the 
> (time) counts in /proc/interrupts stop getting incremented! When this 
> happens, the date on the system falls behind, 'sleep' calls stop working and 
> basically machine becomes unusable.Has anyone else encountered this problem? 
> Is it an HP issue?

That I don't know ut my first question other than the usual "Have you applied
the errata kernels" is probably whether its hitting some of the APIC funnies
older hw occasionally has. Are they stable running "noapic" ?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-30 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-30 14:34 Praveen Ray
2003-01-30 16:44 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-01-30 17:01 ` Matt C
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301291003220.19934-100000@mars.cmie.ernet.in>
2003-02-03 13:22 ` Nohez
2003-02-03 15:03   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-04  4:34     ` Nohez
2003-02-04  2:54   ` Matt C
2003-02-04  4:59     ` Nohez
2003-02-04 19:48       ` Matt C
2003-05-19 13:00 Edwin Top

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