On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 16:26 -0700, Mike wrote: > Try 'cat /proc/interrupts | grep timer' two times or more. > > Look at the number just to the right of '0:' > > This should have incremented a bunch in between cat's. If it didn't > then you likely have a hardware problem or the timer is failing to get > initialized. If it is incrementing then I'm stumped... I don't have the original poster's problem, but I tried that command to see what happens. The same results, each time: [root@bigblack ~]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep timer 0: 180 IO-APIC-edge timer -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.