On 12/17/2007 10:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>
> The Monday 2007-12-17 at 06:04 -0700, Jc Polanycia wrote:
>
> > I have seen this type of behavior once before on one of our Sparc
> boxes.  It
> > would randomly stop processing, then wake up.  You could watch the clock
> > stop ticking and then start again.  Some applications (that weren't
> looking
> > for a clock tick) would be okay, but others (like Kerberos, for some
> > reason) would stop responding.  In that case it ended up being the
> onboard
> > RTC.  We had Sun swap out the system board and the box has been
> stable ever
> > since.
>
> But I refuse to believe it can be a hardware problem, because 10.2 had
> no problems, and the problems started as soon as I upgraded to 10.3
>
Maybe it is not indicating a hardware failure, but the source of the
problem.  It sounds like it is related to your clock problem.  Perhaps
tsc is often marked as unreliable for a reason.  Maybe try jiffies,
since the acpi_pm seemed to cause your clock even more problems.
-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64





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