From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965202AbVHTAeu (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:34:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965206AbVHTAet (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:34:49 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:54013 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965202AbVHTAet (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:34:49 -0400 Subject: Re: lost ticks and Hangcheck From: john stultz To: Nathan Becker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050819094500.GB16279@kurtwerks.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:34:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1124498084.2932.3.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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