Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

From: S.ÃaÄlar Onur
Date: Wed Sep 27 2006 - 17:06:36 EST


27 Eyl 2006 Ãar 23:55 tarihinde, Andi Kleen ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> > Ok. Good to hear you have a workaround. Now to sort out why your TSCs
> > are becoming un-synced. From the dmesg you sent me privately, I noticed
>
> On Intel it seems to happen when people overclock their systems.

This sytem is not overlocked, its a pure 2 x Intel Xeon 3GHz with HT.

> > that while you have 4 cpus, the following message only shows up once:
> >
> > ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
> >
> > Does disabling cpufreq change anything?
>
> Throttling has nothing to do with cpufreq
> (at least not until you use the broken P4 throttling cpufreq
> driver, which nobody should). It is normally only used when
> the CPU overheats.

None of them is used on this system also

buildfarm ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
i2c_i801 7372 0
i2c_core 19968 1 i2c_i801
serio_raw 7012 0
e752x_edac 11364 0
edac_mc 21424 1 e752x_edac
i6300esb 7096 0
tg3 98116 0
sd_mod 18432 4
uhci_hcd 21900 0
ehci_hcd 29896 0
usbcore 115652 5 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
ata_piix 13864 2
libata 93172 1 ata_piix
scsi_mod 127304 2 sd_mod,libata

Also if needed, you can find .config at
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/config.2.6.18

Cheers
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S.ÃaÄlar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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