On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM, adnan.shoeb <[email protected]> wrote: > Sharad- > > What I found on internet is:- > This is caused when the system is hanging under load. Add any one of the > following to you /boot/grub.conf file: > > Disable the NMI watchdog by adding "nmi_watchdog=0" > Disable the high precision event timer (HPET) by adding "nohpet" > > I know the above entry can be put into the grub.conf file......but I am not > sure what exactly it will do.
Hi Adnan, That's what I found too and wanted to know if you had tried it before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchdog_timer -- what watchdog timer does. It should be safe to disable it. There are desktops which don't have these timers and work fine. See if this works out for you or not. You can also try disabling ACPI/APIC to fix this problem. That might fix the problem too. For that, pass "nolapic acpi=off" as boot parameters to your kernel. If you just want to try these options temporarily, add them when you boot the kernel (one time only) instead of adding it to grub.conf. (press escape to see the grub menu if you normally don't, go to the kernel you want to boot, press E to edit parameters etc..) See if these work for you. Sharad -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
