dmesg: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed
Dan Hensley
dan at dshensley.com
Thu Nov 3 16:36:34 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:28 +0200, Tero Hiekkalinna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running FC4 on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4800+ (ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM
> S939 NFORCE4, Kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp) and I have this on systems logs:
Nice system.
>
> ---clip---
>
> Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
> warning: many lost ticks.
> Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
> rip acpi_processor_idle+0x12f/0x37f
>
> ---clip---
>
> What does that mean and should I be worried about it?
Welcome to the club. This is a relatively popular subject.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55223
Updating to kernel 2.6.14-1633 fixed it for me. Others weren't so
fortunate.
Dan
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Tero
>
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