David L wrote:
The timer interrupt is incrementing very slowly. Instead of 1000 Hz it's incrementing about once or twice per minute. What would cause that? I had ntpd running, but I killed it.
There's your answer - kernel bug specific to your hardware.
Try downgrading your kernel to an earlier release, and see if the timer (and other issues) disappear.
OK, I downgraded to 2.6.12 and let it run overnight.
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When I got to work, I found that X-windows had failed to start after downgrading to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I tried 2.6.14 and noticed that udev failed to start. So I had to bring the kernel back to 2.6.16. I compiled 2.6.16.20 without ACPI and APM support and I'm trying that now. I guess I'll have to learn how to downgrade udev before trying an older kernel.
Is the timer behavior I'm seeing definitely a kernel bug? Or should I continue my effort of trying older kernels before filing a bugzilla report on the fc5 kernel?
Thanks...
David
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