Re: lost ticks and Hangcheck

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 17:22 -0700, Nathan Becker wrote:
> > I use the no_timer_check kernel parm and that keeps the clock from
> > running at double speed. I still see some other annoying boot-time
> 
> As I mentioned, no_timer_check doesn't fix it for me.  In fact it makes 
> the problem significantly worse.  I tried it again just to be sure.  Also 
> I tried noapic again and it doesn't help either.
> 
> I found there was an upgrade to the NVIDIA graphics driver that addressed 
> a clock issue (I don't know if it's related to my problem).  I upgraded 
> from version 7667 to 7676.  That seemed to help a little bit, at least in 
> prolonging the amount of time I could reasonably use the system.  Someone 
> in another thread mentioned that they thought this problem might be caused 
> by something in x.org, which I am using.

Please make sure this issue is reproducible without any binary only
drivers.

> Any other ideas or patches would be much appreciated.


If it happens w/o binary only drivers, could you open a bug at
bugzilla.kernel.org and provide full dmesg output?

Also check bug #3341 to see if it is at all similar to what you are
seeing.

thanks
-john