Thanks Sharad ..... let me try this
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠ Keep Smiling -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
