When I run ifconfig or restart the networking on a couple of our machines, I sometimes get this error: warning: many lost ticks. Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts I ran dmesg and got this as well: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. warning: many lost ticks. Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts rip mwait_idle+0x56/0x7c tg3: eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth1: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. tg3: eth1: Link is down. tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. tg3: eth2: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth2: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. tg3: eth3: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth3: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. The machines are IBM x346 dual EM64T's with two Broadcom network ports on board and two Broadcom network cards - these are configured as two bonded pairs. They're running Fedora Core 3 x86_64. What do these errors mean, and are they likely to cause a serious problem? Everything seems OK so far (I've pulled 20GB of data the network already, no issues). Regards, -- Alex
