Re: [BUG] Something goes wrong with timer statistics.
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 18:38:23 EST
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:24 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> (Thomas "The Wizard of Time" added to CC :))
Added more wizards :)
> On 29/05/07, Ian Kumlien <iank@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As the daystar sets, i try to play some with my new would be
> > firewall/server, but since this will be running for quite some time i
> > have been experimenting with powertop to find out what i can do to limit
> > it's power usage.
> >
> > But, if i run powertop for too long or a few times to many... this
> > happens:
> > http://pomac.netswarm.net/pics/kernel_panic.jpg
This was reported before. It's incredibly hard to reproduce.
Ian, is this happening reproducible ?
> > If i don't run powertop, it is rock solid... Compiling for hours,
> > running memtest for hours etc etc...
>
> (Where is my magic ball?)
>
> Let me guess - Pentium 4 with HT?
I might be wrong, but it's a newer core duo thingy.
tglx
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