Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 05:33:54 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: the old 'Unknown HZ value' bug |
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:45:06AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:57:04AM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote: > > > > I keep getting the bug at random times. My googling resulted in a bunch of > > posts claiming that the problem is related to SMP systems and possibly to > > uptime. But not in my case- I do not have a SMP system and I sometimes get > > the bug right after bootup. SMP support is turned off, as you can see in > > my config: > > > > www.3miasto.net/~leszek/config.html > > > > I was getting it with 2.4.17, 2.4.24, and every single 2.6.x . > > ( I haven't tested other 2.4.x's )
sounds like broken tools trying to figure the HZ value from /proc/interrupts and uptime ...
this tends to give exceptionally wrong values, especially shortly after system start (small number of timer interrupts so far)
best, Herbert
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