dmesg: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed

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• From: Tero Hiekkalinna <Tero.Hiekkalinna@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:28:11 +0200
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Hi,

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Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip acpi_processor_idle+0x12f/0x37f

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What does that mean and should I be worried about it?

Thanks!

Best,
Tero

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