From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263770AbUGIDd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:33:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263772AbUGIDd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:33:58 -0400 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:20103 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263770AbUGIDdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:33:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 05:33:54 +0200 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Leszek Koltunski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: the old 'Unknown HZ value' bug Message-ID: <20040709033353.GB1351@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: Marcelo Tosatti , Leszek Koltunski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040708144506.GA6809@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040708144506.GA6809@logos.cnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/