rtc: Lost interrupts messages

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 12:47:02 +0100 (GMT)

I've just got a whole bunch of these messages in my /var/log/messages

Apr 4 00:32:19 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:32:25 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 16Hz.
Apr 4 00:34:13 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 00:34:24 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:34:29 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:37:07 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:37:07 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:43:45 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 00:50:13 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 00:52:32 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:54:14 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:56:03 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz.
Apr 4 00:56:22 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz.
Apr 4 00:57:03 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Apr 4 00:58:18 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 00:58:18 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 01:03:07 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 01:03:38 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 01:07:46 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 01:15:20 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.
Apr 4 12:32:46 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 16Hz.
Apr 4 12:42:00 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 16Hz.
Apr 4 12:44:55 tahallah kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.

What do they mean? And should it be something to worry about? Using Linux
kernel 2.2.5 with glibc 2.1.

Cheers,
Alex

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