Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:20:25 -0700 | From | "john stultz" <> | Subject | Re: Clock has stopped (time/date looping over 5 secon |
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Roland <devzero@web.de> wrote: > > It _appears_ that there is a race in the kernel that can be triggered by > > any number of hardware issues. There's another thread by Gregory Stark > > with the same symptoms - he thinks his was fixed by replacing a bad > > DIMM. > > > > i`d like to mention that we may have a repro-case (if it`s the same issue i > hit within vmware): > > see http://communities.vmware.com/message/909403
The looping ~5seconds sounds like nanosecond overflows. Might it be that vmware isn't delivering timer interrupts? Could this be an interaction w/ hrt or no_hz?
thanks -john
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