Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Sun Aug 07 2005 - 09:30:12 EST


> No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels
> by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000.

John Stultz's timeofday patches seem to fix this lost ticks issue. You might want to try them.

(I too, routinely get "lost ticks - rip is at acpi_processor_idle" messages which vanished during the period when I was trying John's patches.)

Parag



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