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From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Leszek Koltunski <leszek@serwer.3miasto.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the old 'Unknown HZ value' bug
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 05:33:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709033353.GB1351@MAIL.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708144506.GA6809@logos.cnet>

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:45:06AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:57:04AM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
> > 
> > I keep getting the bug at random times. My googling resulted in a bunch of 
> > posts claiming that the problem is related to SMP systems and possibly to 
> > uptime. But not in my case- I do not have a SMP system and I sometimes get 
> > the bug right after bootup. SMP support is turned off, as you can see in 
> > my config:
> > 
> > www.3miasto.net/~leszek/config.html
> > 
> > I was getting it with 2.4.17, 2.4.24, and every single 2.6.x .
> > ( I haven't tested other 2.4.x's )

sounds like broken tools trying to figure the
HZ value from /proc/interrupts and uptime ...

this tends to give exceptionally wrong values,
especially shortly after system start (small
number of timer interrupts so far)

best,
Herbert

> Leszek, 
> 
> Can you please your problem in more detail?
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08  0:57 Leszek Koltunski
2004-07-08 14:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-09  3:33   ` Herbert Poetzl [this message]

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