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SubjectRe: Mysterious freezes after 2.6.35, no NMI
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:39:59PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> To add insult to injury, at least in the 2.6.38 series, the NMI watchdog is
> broken. The counters in /proc/interrupts always show 0, but will count up
> quite happily on 2.6.35.

The nmi watchdog changed for 2.6.36, such that it increments every 60
seconds instead of every second. Using cpuspeed and a lightly loaded
system, will delay it even longer. This is a good thing as you don't need
nmi interrupts firing all the time.

But if after sticking a load on the system for 10 minutes, the NMI
interrupt doesn't increment, then I would be concerned.

Cheers,
Don


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