Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks

From: kernel-stuff
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 19:41:27 EST


I haven't tried Andi's patch with noapic yet. Will do that to see if it fixes the NMI and DMA timeouts.

And I have the latest available BIOS update applied.

May be related - once in 10 reboots (approx.) I get the K8 Errata #93 missing warning even with the updated BIOS - it's not consistent.


> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Iau, 2004-11-18 at 17:02, kernel-stuff@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I tried all the newer kernels including -ac. All have the same
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Andi - On a side note, your change "NVidia ACPI timer override"
> > > present in 2.6.9-ac8 breaks on my laptop - I get some NMI errors ("Do
> > > you have a unusual power management setup?") and DMA timeouts -
> > > happens regularly.
> >
> > Ok ACPI timer override probably goes back into the broken bucket and out
> > of -ac in -ac11 then.
>
> I think it's more a broken system, booting with noapic (as is what
> happened before) should get things back to normal. Parry, have you updated
> the BIOS on your laptop?
>
> Thanks,
> Zwane
>
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