Subject: re: Drifting SS5 clock
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/21/2001 17:17:00
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, matthew green wrote:
>
> > That seems to be a common problem with recent kernels. They appear to
> > lose clock interrupts. Maybe other interrupts as well.
>
> Is it known why it happens?
>
> Initial investigation shows some correllation between lost
> interrupts and exiting the scheduler. However, there's
> quite some difference between that and actually isolating
> the root cause.
>
> Charles posted some of his findings recently. I think
> that was in tech-kern.
>
>
> hmm. this reminds me of lennart's post about tearing down the
> processes address space taking a Long Time, on tech-kern(?)
> recently...
>
Thanks for pointers
Andrey