Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:14:59 +0100 (MET) | From | Hubert Mantel <> | Subject | Re: Clue on 2.0.33 crashes |
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Hi,
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Jos Vos wrote: > > > > Thomas Schenk wrote: > > > > > And I would add that we have found that prior to every freeze that our > > > systems have experienced under 2.0.33, we find a syslog message from xntpd > > > as follows: > > > > > > Feb 11 09:18:46 acme xntpd[151]: kernel pll status change 89 > > > > > > These messages do not occur immediately prior to the crash, but we have > > > theorized that this status change is a precursor to the lockup and the > > > number of lockups that we have seen has been greatly reduced since we > > > stopped using xntpd and started using ntpdate with the -b option in a > > > cron job to sync the clocks. > > Hmmmm, I'm running xntpd on about 5 systems and I've never had a lock nor > seen this message. Of course, that could be merely luck. The real question > in my mind is what is that message all about. There were significant > updates to the kernel time code in 2.0.32 or 2.0.33 (can't remember which). > It seems (by memory) that the changes were written by either Ulrich > {Wendel,Drepper} (SP?). Maybe the author would comment?
We're running xntpd on all of our machines. IIRC Ulrich Windl is not subscribed to the kernel list.
> Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
Hubert
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