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The timer interrupt is incrementing very slowly. Instead of 1000
Hz it's incrementing about once or twice per minute. What would
cause that? I had ntpd running, but I killed it.
There's your answer - kernel bug specific to your hardware.
Try downgrading your kernel to an earlier release, and see if the timer
(and other issues) disappear.
OK, I downgraded to 2.6.12 and let it run overnight.
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When I got to work, I found that X-windows had failed to start after
downgrading to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I tried 2.6.14 and noticed that
udev failed to start. So I had to bring the kernel back to 2.6.16. I
compiled 2.6.16.20 without ACPI and APM support and I'm trying
that now.
I have not seen the timer problem since I changed to the
2.6.16.20 kernel. I've filed a bug report against the fc5
kernels:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194914
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions...
David
PS - I'm not sure whether to add "resolved" to the subject line
because this solution is just a workaround.
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