On Mar 30, 2005 1:18 PM, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alex Greg wrote: > > 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 > > <snip> > > > 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). > > Kernel-level problem. Do you have any kernel modules loaded that didn't > come from Fedora? If not (and you're up to date), you should bugzilla > it. Hi James, Thanks for the response. I've up2date'd the system and it seems OK now. Regards, -- Alex
