unstable system question

[jim ruxton]

> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:19 -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
> > My system keeps slowing down and locking up. The only thing I've found
> > is that I get the following system message when this happens. I'm
> > assuming this is related but it may just be a coincidence or a result of
> > the lockup.
> > 
> > Sep 20 04:05:35 localhost kernel: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta =
> > 84348170175 ns)
> > Sep 20 04:05:35 localhost kernel: Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been
> > installed.
> > 
> > I tried adding notsc to my boot file ie.
> > 
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-49.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
> > quiet notsc
> > 
> > but tsc still is loaded at boot. Any one have any thoughts on this. As
> > you can see above I'm on FC6 with 2.6.22 Kernel.
> 
> notsc is only valid on IA32 (Itanium) processors.  You might try
> booting with "clocksource=acpi_pm" initially to see if that helps.
Thanks Rick I will try this and see if it helps.
Jim
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