Re: timer interrupts on HP machines

From: Matt C (wago@phlinux.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 12:01:50 EST


Hi Praveen-

We have a few LT6000r servers as well, and have the same problem on all
2.4 kernels -- this happens when your MP spec is set to 1.1 in the BIOS.
Change it to 1.4 and you should be okay.

The other common problem on these guys is the CPU speed misdetect, which
causes the kernel to think your CPU is roughly 2x as fast as it really is.
The solution to that one is to unplug and replug the power cords (even a
power-off doesn't fix it, go figure).

Hope that helps.

-Matt

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Praveen Ray wrote:

> We have few HP (LPR NetServers and LT6000) which run 2.4.18 (from RedHat 8.0)
> . The problem is that sometimes the time interrupts stop coming - i.e. the
> (time) counts in /proc/interrupts stop getting incremented! When this
> happens, the date on the system falls behind, 'sleep' calls stop working and
> basically machine becomes unusable.Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> Is it an HP issue?
> Thanks.
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