Warning : many lost ticks, time source seems to be instable

PrakashP · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject:

Well, I already said that the tsc timer won't work. Here is the help text from pm_timer:

Acoc · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:24 am Post subject:

I was looking at the changelog of 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 and it says there is a tick fix. Could anyone tell me how to use this kernel as I am new to gentoo and how to enable the fix.

John
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thaldyron · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:12 am Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:15 am Post subject:

Well the problem is it is !x86_64, so you won't see it. I am just on x86. As i said, ask at lkml, 'cos this behaviour doesn't seem right.

themoebius · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 117

if you google "many lost ticks" you only get 4 different pages, one of them being this thread and the others don't specify a distro, so I'm betting its a gentoo problem. But that wouldn't explain why people are having problems with the mm-sources. Does gentoo mess with the mm-sources?

I think I'll try vanilla and see if that does the trick.

PrakashP · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:41 am Post subject:

Well you don't get many threads as there are not many x86_64 distris out there...

yxis · n00b Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 24 Location: your gnu-spot

my lost ticks / hogging prob was solved by disabling generic IDE support in my kernel, and then compiling IDE support for VIA into the kernel, per someone's earlier post in this thread. worked like a charm. (mobo = abit KV8-max3).

PrakashP · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:32 am Post subject:

This method is no cure, just some starnge work-around. Ir may work for you, but I think it just makes it harder to reproduce. Root of all evil *is* the time source.

Acoc · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject:

I have tried gentoo-dev 2.6.7-r11 r12 and r13. Only r13 doesn't produce these errors.
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thaldyron · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:38 am Post subject:

Dephyler · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 31

I switch to the development sourcs(not the dev sources) and the ticks are gone. I have not touched the bios, and I use the same kernel config. but everything is fine! i recommend switching to the development-sources.

deph

dangertools · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

thaldyron · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject:

Evangelion · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

krobar · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 63 Location: illinois

i fixed the issue on my system by enabaling the via chipset support in the kernel, don't know if that helps anyone

dangertools · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:39 am Post subject:

I have found a BIOS-upgrade for the aspire 1500 series on the panamerican acer website to version 1.06. this update is not available on the european acer website and it has to be installed via DOS. i have upgraded my bios a few minutes ago and the laptop still works as before but i had not the tick problem anymore since using development-sources but with everything enabled like acpi, ide etc. i have built a complete image with a dos bootdisk with cd-rom support. you just have to start the *.bat file on the cdrom and it should upgrade your bios. laptop has to be plugged into AC and the battery has to have more than 30% capacity. perhaps it resolves some of the problems with this laptop for non americans. the batchfile doesn't save the old bios. if something doesn't work don't blame on me but as i said my laptop works still fine.

Here the iso for burning a cdrom

http://members.inode.at/g.schild/DIV/BootDiskAspire1501V106.iso

dangertools

bverheg · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Vlaanderen

dangertools · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:40 am Post subject:

thaldyron · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:40 am Post subject:

I just tried the development-sources-2.6.8.1 with the "report_lost_ticks parameter" and guess what:

bverheg · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Vlaanderen

I got kernel OOPSes with mm-sources-2.6.8.1.
I guess we will soon see a 2.6.8.2 kernel.

dangertools: thanks, I will try to upgrade the BIOS too.

dangertools · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

i have bootet my 2.6.8.1 developement-sources kernel with report_many_lost ticks and now ask me what it reported to me. many_lost_ticks

but the message changed. it now has something with softirq and other IRQ things in it

looks like this:

thaldyron · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

As long as you don't report it at lkml, no one will take care of it... I don#t have an athlon64, so I cannot test.

ub818 · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 66

I keep getting :

db9052 · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 5