Re: Instability in kernel version 2.6.12.5

[Nathan Lynch]

Justin R. Smith wrote:
> funky=
> 
> 1. the clock is frozen at about 2331 the previous night. Setting it is 
> possible, but it remains frozen at whatever time one set it to.
> 
> 2. Any X app one starts hangs.
> 
> 3. Many operations take an extraordinarily long time. Rebooting the 
> system too > 30 minutes (all spent shutting down. The restart was at the 
> normal speed).

I saw behavior quite similar to this on a P4 workstation a few months
ago -- after about 24 hours the system would get all "funky" and
/proc/interrupts showed that timer interrupts had slowed to a trickle.
Updating the BIOS fixed it.


Nathan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/