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SubjectRe: Clock has stopped (time/date looping over 5 secon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Roland <devzero@web.de> wrote:
> > It _appears_ that there is a race in the kernel that can be triggered by
> > any number of hardware issues. There's another thread by Gregory Stark
> > with the same symptoms - he thinks his was fixed by replacing a bad
> > DIMM.
> >
>
> i`d like to mention that we may have a repro-case (if it`s the same issue i
> hit within vmware):
>
> see http://communities.vmware.com/message/909403

The looping ~5seconds sounds like nanosecond overflows. Might it be
that vmware isn't delivering timer interrupts? Could this be an
interaction w/ hrt or no_hz?

thanks
-john


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