Re: 2.6.0-test11, TSC cannot be used as a timesource.

[Ed Sweetman]

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
>
> > On Saturday 06 December 2003 03:56 pm, Markku Savela wrote:
> >
> > > > From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Markku Savela wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I've seen some references to above problem, but no clear answer.
> > > > > The 'ntpd' is complaining a lot...
> > > > >
> > > > > I have ASUS P4S800. Here is some extracts from dmesg (I can provide
> > > > > more complete dump, if anyone wants something specific.)
> > > >
> > > > Does this only happen when running X11?
> > >
> > > Hmm.. possibly. When I boot single user, it does not appear to happen.
> >
> > Do you have an ACPI battery stat or thermal monitor apps running (I see
> > that you have ACPI active). Does it help it you increase the polling
> > interval? Too many systems spend too much time in SCI handler...
>
>
> Yes cat /proc/interrupts might also give some sort of rough indication.


It took over 3 days to trigger it on my system, so booting to  single 
user mode and waiting 5 minutes is not a good marker of deciding if 
that's the case or not.  Also, i dont have SCSI compiled in my kernel at 
all yet this happens. So that idea is out.


Here is my /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:  426319022          XT-PIC  timer
  1:     409358          XT-PIC  i8042
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  5:          0          XT-PIC  acpi
  8:  136058006          XT-PIC  rtc
 11:   23497500          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth0, EMU10K1
 12:   25482865          XT-PIC  bttv0
 14:    1440279          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:     405600          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:  426178067
ERR:     554364
MIS:          0


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