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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